dhbailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Do you really mean to assert that Shakespeare or Swinburne never
> stretch-ed [2 syllables] words to make them fit? Nor ever contracted
> them just to squeeze them in? When did "ever" become one syllable
> "e'er" I would like to know?
That's not the best example, since I believe the original
pronunciation of words like stretched was the two-syllable form. The
fact that we now pronounce it with just one syllable is as much an
example of synalepha as e'er.
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