OCR Text |
Show Lcng "i" AH Hhht Casual readers of poetry somelimo-; pel a menial shock when they discover the noun "wind" rhyi:i"d willi su-:, words as "blind" or "ibid." Put. lie eord'ng lo Ihe Mentor Magazine. Ihe trouble Is not with the pionum iat ion of the old tim" poets, but wilh Unit of modern readers. The noun belong to H fgnmp of wiIm wlldi for many ecu turloH have been pronounced with n long vowel The group Includes kind, blind, mind, rind, behind anil the verbs bind. wind. I'md. The New Standard dictionary gives bolh pronunciations, the one with Ihe long vowel being Indicated In-dicated as the prolinuria! ion used by poets.- I lelrolt News. |