Dear Alexander, It's the stressed syllable which has to rhyme. The -ov ending is unstressed, so it's the syllable before which matters. I assume one pronounces his name Ka-ra-MAZ-ov, so you need something to rhyme with "maz".
All the best, Stewart. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alexander Batov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu> Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 10:49 PM Subject: [LUTE] Re: Hip and Sting > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Stewart McCoy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Lute Net" <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu> > Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 11:47 AM > Subject: [LUTE] Hip and Sting > > > > ... For your > > rhymes to work, his name would have to be Karamoxov, or some such. > > Dostoevsky wouldn't have appreciated this :( > > How about: Karamazov, Stingov, Dowlandov (the stress on the penultimate > syllable in the last one is permissible in Russian). > > Alexander To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
