[Ads-l] "-ies"
James A. Landau
JJJRLandau at NETSCAPE.COM
Tue Jan 23 21:03:48 UTC 2018
A somewhat related topic:
In _A Midsummer Night's Dream_ Act III Scene III is mostly rhyming poetry. Most of the rhymes work in modern American English, so it seems reasonable that Shakespeare was intending all of the rhymes to work.
but
word rhymes with
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melody lullaby
prettily lie
loyalty I
courtesy lie
insufficiency eye
heresy me
immediately nigh
What gives?
- Jim Landau
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