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Of course towed/toed/toad has just one syllable, wet or dry. (Hi zmjezhd.)
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Of course towed/toed/toad has just one syllable, wet or dry. (Hi zmjezhd.)
Yeah. They're pronounced just like toward, one syllable.
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wet or dry
There's a great monograph by the late Alan Dundes "Wet and Dry: The Evil Eye". In Interpreting Folklore. (Disclaimer, my grandmother made it into a footnote therein.)
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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Of course towed/toed/toad has just one syllable, wet or dry. (Hi zmjezhd.)
Yeah. They're pronounced just like toward, one syllable. I pronounce 'toward' as two syllables. tə'wɔd. If you count tə' as a syllable.
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Of course towed/toed/toad has just one syllable, wet or dry. (Hi zmjezhd.)
Yeah. They're pronounced just like toward, one syllable. I pronounce 'toward' as two syllables. tə'wɔd. If you count tə' as a syllable. No, no! Toward is one* syllable, yes, but it's tord. Olly, bet you can't say tord! Pookie--wot'm'I gonna do with you?  *usually (heh heh)
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No, no! Toward is one* syllable, yes, but it's tord.
I noticed yesterday that Barak Obama makes "Senator Clinton" into two monosyllables, so he could probably manage "tord"
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Olly, bet you can't say tord! It's yalls silent Dubya that gets us Southerners.
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Olly, bet you can't say tord! It's yalls silent Dubya that gets us Southerners. hee hee. What he means is that we are the REAL Southerners, and we say toward not tord. Actually, it's not only the silent 'w' that gets us, but the voiced 'r' as well. Kiwis and Aussies tend not to pronounce 'r' when it occurs in certain positions such as the end of a word or before a consonant. We say ca not car, aht not art, and bahn not barn, etc. So it's t'wawd to us! (IPA tə'wɔd)
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[quote=olly]Kiwis and Aussies tend not to pronounce 'r' when it occurs in certain positions such as the end of a word or before a consonant. We say ca not car, aht not art, and bahn not barn, etc. I think.
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[quote=olly]Kiwis and Aussies tend not to pronounce 'r' when it occurs in certain positions such as the end of a word or before a consonant. We say ca not car, aht not art, and bahn not barn, etc. I think. Non-rhotics of the world unite I say! Could rhoticism when it is online on a webpage like this be called e-rhoticism? 
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