On Monday, July 16, 2001, at 06:19 PM, Candice Ward wrote:
> on 7/16/01 5:50 PM, Printmaker at [log in to unmask] wrote:
>
>> Michael Snider wrote:
>>>
>>> On Sunday, July 15, 2001, at 01:18 PM, Robin Hamilton wrote:
>>>
>>> twist the normal pronunciation of
>>> DEtail to deTAIL.
>>>
>>> Two American data points: I say it both ways, and the American
>>> Heritage
>>> Dictionary lists both pronunciations, deTAIL first.
>>
>>
>> Isn't deTAIL what they pin on deDONKEY?
>>
>>
>> (sorry guys but there is no other god but the OED - at least
>> in my philosophy, all else are just regional variations)
>
>
> From DE donkey's perspective, it would surely be DE tail--a case
> of _DE
> ixis narcissisi_ (_ipse dixie_-loik)?
>
> But isn't the stress in this case a function of the meter? With "each"
> preceding "detail" in that (Auden?) line, how could it possibly end
> with the
> stress on "de"?
>
> Robin, your learn`ed opinion, please!
>
> Candice
>
In the Auden, it's DEtail, in Gioia, it's deTAIL. In both cases, both
regional and metrical.
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