At 8:50 PM 10/19/03, Philip Aker wrote: >I think the separate syllable could be trac·ed back even further. >English scholars, what say ye?
Certainly. I thought the question was how *late* it persisted, not how early. Pronouncing the -ed as a separate syllable is the earlier practice, and is pretty much universal for anything before Shakespeare. mdl _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
