[Dixonary] Round 1738: COOEY Vote

[Dodi Schultz]

>> ...pronunciation of _aborigine_ -- for those who don't know, it
>> rhymes with _a washing line_.

Okay, I'll buy (sort of) your assertion that "-gine" (which I'd always
heard pronounced "jinny") rhymes with "gline."

But as to your claim that "abori-" rhymes with "a washin"...

--Dodi

[Paul Keating]

Orraiight, not rhymes with, but chimes with.

I would have done it in IPA, but then Tapcis would have decided it was
binary and given you a blank message.

--
Paul Keating
The Hague

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dodi Schultz" <schultz (AT) compuserve (DOT) com>
> Okay, I'll buy (sort of) your assertion that "-gine" (which I'd always
> heard pronounced "jinny") rhymes with "gline."
>



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[Toni Savage]

6 is clever, and I like scots, so 2.

2 and 6, please.
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2: [Scot.] a cane-maker.

6: an incompletely addressed letter (from Latin cui, "to whom")




-- Toni Savage

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