Delores #?!

I hate to confess my apparent ignorance of the female anatomy, but which bit rhymes with 'Delores'??

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ROTFWL Tillie. I agree with you. Is he for real? ;)

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Nahweiog Arwheji

Well, actually it doesn't really rhyme syllable for syllable (which is probably why you're having a hard time figuring it out), but it's...

clitoris....

[email] (Jaycey) wrote:

i hear some guys have trouble finding it, too;~>

during the episode, i figured it was going to be ragina for vagina. there was another one i stumbled on later, and of course i can't remember what it was now.

cheers.

On Thu, 14 Nov 1996, john wildermuth wrote:

C'mon! Do you actually know anybody named Ragina? Regina, maybe, but that doesn't really rhyme. (Then again, neither do Delores and clitoris).

Matt McDaniel wrote:

actually, yes, i do. two in fact. the usual way of pronouncing it is with a long e sound, however i believe the latin is with a long i, as in "elizabeth, regina". according to my desk dictionary, regina, pronounced with a long i, is the capital of saskatchwan, canada. it's probably going to depent on how the parents ponounce it. and even without the alternate ponunciation, the fact that the spelling is so close is enough to cause your average elementry/junior high student to use it to torment someone.

and i'm still trying to remember the other name i thought of, which is a much better rhyme than either of the others but it's much more obscure.

(tossed in for mental torment. anyone much under thirty may not catch the reference.) small apes thrown on the fire at christmas. they're yule gibbons.

cheers.

I have to disagree with your statement about the Latin pronunciation of the long "i." I studied Latin for 4 years. In Latin, the long "i" is pronounced like a long "e." The dipthong "ae" is pronounced like a long "i."

--Cindy

Regina

The capital of Saskatchewan uses the other pronunciation.

no, it's "veni, vidi, vici" and was pronounced "wainy, weedy, weeky".

Nahweiog Arwheji

[email] (Richard Browne) wrote:

Clitoris

CLITORIS - i was sitting on a train wondering what it could be when i suddenly realized began laughing.

On Thu, 14 Nov 1996, Richard Browne wrote:

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clitoris rhymes with delores.

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and vice versa.

Nahweiog Arwheji

Let me apologize for posting on this topic so late after the original conversation. I'm a classics grad student, so this is a subject near to my heart.

OK, you're both right here. What's going on is this: until fairly recently English speakers pronounced Latin words using the rules of English. So regina is pronounced /re'gina/ in Classical Latin (something like reh-GEE-nah with a hard g), but /r@'dZain@/ in English (Rhymes with... you know what. In fact, in classical pronunciation those words rhyme too)

	Um, the famous quote is veni vidi vici, although those words you
cite are all Latin. Vini vidi vivi would be "Wines. I saw. I
lived"
	In any case, the evidence for classical pronunciation is actually
quite good, even if no one alive today was actually around when it
was originally used. So it can be said with Lots of Authority (tm)
that regina was not pronounced with an "eye" until the Great Vowel
Shift in england in the middle ages.

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