HUM: English is TOUGH stuff!

[Paul Mackin]

>From Basileios D:
> > Rounded, wounded, grieve and sleeve, 
> > Friend and fiend, alive and live.
> 
> 
> i always thought that sleeve doesnt rhyme with live...
> 
> but then again i am not a native english speaker

I think your right,  Basileios. Which reminds me of something in
the current GR episodes.

"Turn off that faucet, Dorset" (p.124)

Is "faucet" pronounced FOR-set?  (as indeed it CAN be some places in the U.S.)

Or is "Dorset" pronounced DAW-set? (what about that big hotel near the Marble
Arch?)

Are there even more possibilities?

British reply requested.


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