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Wofahulicodoc-i pronounce this WOfaHUlicoDOC. Two trochees and and iamb (or an amphibrach and an anapest). RhuBARB comMANdo. PEter tromBONiAtor- the last is deliciously iambic as is RC.
I disagree that iamb is closest to normal speech.
Iamb is closest to desired intonation.
Okay serious question: scansion changes with accent. I pronoun trochee as an iamb. Where does that leave carefully scanned poetry- in the realm of subjectivity? There are no set rules as to which syllables are and aren't stressed, are there?
*** Sorry for the excessive energy of this post: a beloved topic.
Apparently the longer syllables are stressed and shorter aren't but this is also dependent on accent and culture. For salman rushdie- we say salMAAN and not SALman.
Okay -I'll stop yappin now.
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Thing One: I misspelled indefatigabobble-whatever not just once, but twice.
Thing Two: We need some new target words to proceed with Sparteye's Game. RC, I think you had the last successful posting, so you get to select!
PS. Y'all all did know it's Dr Seuss' Birthday Celebration today, didn't you?
PPS. Now that I think of it, I should go look at the Google Doodle today...
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If there's a Google Doodle I did not receive it, yet anyhow.
----please, draw me a sheep----
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No. Apparently they chose not to recognize it. Conceivably they were even discouraged from doing so because of copyright issues.
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I think the latter is very likely - Dr Seuss was such a well-loved writer by generations of children - and adults, for that matter! - that I can't think of any other reasonable motive for Google to ignore him.
To re-start Sparteye's game (and to wish her well and hope she soon recovers!) my random dictionary-opening has given me
ANNIHILATE - ANOTHER
I'm immortal until proven otherwise
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I got one! My brother is a Republican A Democrat is my mother A family way On Election Day To annihilate one another  FLANK - FLASH
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jj, you're BACK!! Oh, joy, wonderfulness, and dancing! [HUG]
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My brother built a grocery store
To annihilate our mother.
The building was a carnivore,
'T'would eat what it could smother.
He rigged the soap aisle to collapse,
But Mom shopped in another.
A quirk of fate it was, perhaps:
An aisle ate my brother.
edit: Nice work, Jenny.
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"An aisle ate my brother"?  You can rest assured, Mister Tromboniator, that that particular order of words has never before been concocted by a sapient mind in all the history of all mankind.
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never before been concocted by a sapient mind
Some might argue that it still hasn't. Peter
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