On Apr 30, 2007, at 6:16 PM, Matthew Hindson fastmail acct wrote:
John Howell wrote:
For us that don't actively pronounce the "r" in words, "girl" is
pronounced with a neutral vowel. The r isn't heard at all.
Similarly for "fire". In such occasions it may well be worth
hyphenating as "fi-re" since heaps of English speakers otherwise won't
sing it as two syllables, if that is your intention.
The analogy doesn't follow. Auden's rhyming of fire w. Messiah shows
that British poetry divides "fire" as often as American, pronouncing it
fi-ah.
Andrew Stiller
Kallisti Music Press
http://www.kallistimusic.com/
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