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Show blind, mind, rind, behind and Ih" vmh. bind, wind, find, Th" New Standard diet ioi'ii ry gives both pronunciations, Ihe on" with Ih" long vowel being In I i i ;i I il us Ihe proniincinl loii used by pocl m. Del roi t News. Long "I" AH Right Casual readers of poetry funnel 1 iikm get a mwdi.l shock when they discover th" rioun "wind" rhymed with such words ioi "blind" or "find." Bui. a" cording lo Ih" Mentor Magazine, the trouble Is not with Ih" pronunciation of the old lliii" pocl'-f, but wllh thai of modem reader. Th" noun b"lon;"i lo ll irtoup of v. ' i ii which for iiiaii.v ecu turi'-n lia'.e lieen pronounced wiUi a lori vov.' l 'i he group Includes kind, |