XPost: alt.usage.english   
   From: hayesstw@telkomsa.net   
      
   On Tue, 16 Jul 2024 08:23:45 +0100, Aidan Kehoe    
   wrote:   
      
   >   
   > Ar an cúigiú lá déag de mí Iúil, scríobh jerryfriedman:   
   >   
   > > [...] I don't follow, since "come" doesn't rhyme with "doom". Kipling's   
   > > rhyme looks like an ordinary eye rhyme, though I don't know whether at some   
   > > point "come" rhymed with some pronunciation of "Rome".   
   >   
   >Well, it certainly doesn’t rhyme with the current pronunciation of ,   
   and   
   >it comes much closer to rhyming with .   
      
   It's just the pronunciation of those who are fraffly well-spoken, and   
   rhymes with the way they pronounce "spoken" - in front of their teeth,   
   with lips pursed.   
      
   They, of course, accuse those they regard as less well-spoken of   
   "swallowing their vowels".   
      
      
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