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From: Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net>
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Subject: Re: /ru:m/ for Rome and the Gods of the Copybook Headings
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2024 08:55:48 +0200
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On Tue, 16 Jul 2024 08:23:45 +0100, Aidan Kehoe <kehoea@parhasard.net>
wrote:

>
> Ar an cúigiú lá déag de mí Iúil, scríobh jerryfriedman: 
>
> > [...] I don't follow, since "come" doesn't rhyme with "doom". Kipling's
> > rhyme looks like an ordinary eye rhyme, though I don't know whether at some
> > point "come" rhymed with some pronunciation of "Rome".
>
>Well, it certainly doesn’t rhyme with the current pronunciation of <Rome>, and
>it comes much closer to rhyming with <doom>.

It's just the pronunciation of those who are fraffly well-spoken, and
rhymes with the way they pronounce "spoken" - in front of their teeth,
with lips pursed.

They, of course, accuse those they regard as less well-spoken of
"swallowing their vowels".

 
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