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
