Mark,
Thanks for the extensive comments on hyphenation when the
pronounciation doesn't reflect the syllabification.
On Apr 30, 2007, at 3:36 AM, Mark D Lew wrote:
Side note: Personally, I pronounce "i-ron" like "eye-ruhn" even in
ordinary speech, and it is a source of ongoing amusement to my wife
to point out that everyone else in the world says "eye-urn".
Surely I'm not the only one. Does anyone else out there say "eye-
ruhn"?
Not me, but you are talking to a guy who pronounced the "w" in
"sword" and said "ay-zell" for "aisle" until he was thirteen. And
more embarrassingly, I never knew the "l" in "balked" was silent
until this year, when a student corrected me. That's what comes of
reading to acquire vocabulary, instead of talking to people.
However, everyone in my region when I started school pronounced "oat"
and "out" identically, and "taking a turn about in a boat" or "going
out to the outhouse" was "taking a turn aboat in a boat" and "going
oat to the oathoase", so there is some allowance for local
pronunciation.
I also pronounce "comfortable" as four syllable, more or less as
written. That one my wife says the same as I do, but we're in the
minority against those who say is as three syllables like "comf-ter-
ble". Now there's an interesting puzzle. Suppose your lyric has
"comfortable" and you want it to be sung in the common way on three
syllables, how would you spell/hyphenate that?
I dunno, but maybe "comf-ter-ble" isn't so bad, or maybe "comf'-ter-
ble" with the apostrophe to allow for the missing syllable. Flipping
idly through the score to Porgy and Bess and Oklahoma, I see all
kinds of respellings like this to convey a dialect. We also spell out
numbers, like "Forty-seven", when they show up in lyrics, even though
it is perfectly permissible to write them in text as "47".
Christopher
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