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Peter T. Daniels wrote:
> kleinecke@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Do "mirror" and "mere" rhyme?
No. "mirror" is two syllables. "mere is one. The first syllable of
"mirror" has a short "i" and the vowel of "mere" is longer. "mere",
"beer and "fear" rhyme. "pear" and "fair" do not rhyme with "mere". Nor
does "fire". I think I have only three short vowels before "r" plus
another consonant as in "burp", "fork" and "harp" (the scheme collapses
if the final vowel is "d") but a full set of long vowels including
"Moyer (a proper name)" not "foyer". Maybe this only holds for stops.
I seem to have only two with "l" as in "bulk" and "bilk". All the
"talk"s seem to lost the "l".
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