as a speech pathologist i consulted the 'ultimate' pronouncing dictionary
resource for AMERICAN english and not only are there 2 acceptable spellings
(werewolf, werwolf) but there are 6 pronunciations, all acceptable!
whirwolf, werewolf, wiruhwolf, etc--as long as you accent the first
syllable, you're most probably ok!) penny aldrich
At 10:48 AM 2/5/00 -0800, kwildgen wrote:
>Again, it may rhyme with Marty Feldman's "There wolf" or with Little Red
>Riding Hood's "Here, Wolf." Dictionary gives long e first.
>KW
>
>[log in to unmask] wrote:
>>
>> I'm hip, but does "wer/e" by itself rhyme with "there," "here" or "her"?
Is
>> the pl. strong or weak?
>>
>> In a message dated 2/5/2000 3:16:27 AM Pacific Standard Time,
>> [log in to unmask] writes:
>>
>> << It has sometimes occurred to me during the controversies about
>> inclusive language that some of the difficulties might have been
>> circumvented if we had resurrected the word 'wer' when wishing to
>> refer to males, and kept 'man' in its former unisex sense - a sense
>> which it retains, actually, in the North East; I have often heard
>> Sunderland women referring to each other as 'man' which sounds a little
>> odd to a southern ear.
>> >>
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