When I speak, I also say, "eye-urn." I would direct my choir to
sing, "ah-ih-ruhn." The difference being the treatment of the
diphthong on the first syllable. I think I picked that mode up from
Shaw, as a part of his (and mine) never-ending battle to exhort
choirs to differentiate between our speaking lives and our singing
lives.
Dean
On May 1, 2007, at 7:33 AM, Ken Moore wrote:
Mark D Lew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 exactly, but "eye-ron" is the standard pronunciation in
Walton's "Belshazzar's Feast", IIRC.
John Howell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
OK, there's an up tempo madrigal that starts "Fi-re, fi-re" at
some length.
If you mean the Morley, ISTR that the original spelling was "Fyer,
fyer".
--
Ken Moore
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Of all hoaxes, the one which is my most vexing bête noire on a
quotidian basis, is the cereal box top which informs simply,
"Lift Tab to Open." Then, "To Close, Insert Tab Here ." Yeah,
right! In attempting to accomplish the first direction, not only
the tab but also the slit intended to accept the aforementioned
protuberance have both been irreparably disfigured and rendered
dysfunctional. This debacle is then amplified by the misbehavior
of the recalcitrant inner bag, which can not be unsealed sans
mangling it, and hence, will not disperse its contents without
exiting the box itself. All I wanted was a bowl of cereal.
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