POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : English is rough : Re: English is rough Server Time
4 Sep 2024 23:19:27 EDT (-0400)
  Re: English is rough  
From: Stephen
Date: 17 Oct 2009 04:26:13
Message: <4ad97fa5$1@news.povray.org>
"Sabrina Kilian" <ski### [at] vtedu> wrote in message 
news:4ad934db$1@news.povray.org...

> I can not make those rhyme without butchering one or the other. Either
> Ar-ken-saw becomes Ar-kens-ur, or Four becomes Fou. Maybe there is a
> homograph of 'four' that I am missing? Or maybe I just need a proper
> Queen's English accent to get that one.

As Bill said it depends on personal accent and I'll add regional and class 
(there I go again :) to that.
Four and Ar-ken-saw do rhyme if you use a posh RP (Received Pronunciation) 
English accent (fou-ar and saw-ar).

The girl reading the poem in TC's post did really well IMO.

-- 

Stephen


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