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How do you say "o'er"? I've been pronouncing it in full as "over", but should it be different?
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I'd say that in some poetry, it is necessary for scansion purposes to make it just the one syllable with the 'o' as in doe.

For instance, consider "I wander'd lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills." The scansion wouldn't work if you made it two syllables as in 'over'.

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Thanks. I'm not quite sure how o'er is a single syllable, but going in search of a recording of Daffodils, of which I expect there will be some, will be a good start.

I'm not sure about this "lonely as a cloud" thing though. In this British "summer" clouds seem an extremely gregarious species!
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Sound sample of how (not?) to pronounce o'er

Click the sample of #7: O'er Hill And Dale
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Post by RuthieG »

:lol: :lol: :lol: Oh, wonderful, wonderful.

Twit, I absolutely forbid you to do a Mr Wisty in our play. I should just die laughing.
Annoying Twit wrote:I'm not quite sure how o'er is a single syllable
You just elide the 'v'
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I pronounce it "ore."
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Post by simonlarois »

For what it's worth I pronounce 'o'er' as Ruth does... although I think Mr Wisty's 'Uuuuuuggh' is going into my repertoire :D

I once decided to mispronounce the word 'pronunciation', for the sake of irony. Ironically, never since have I been able to remember which is pronunciation is the right pronunciation!

So Jeeves and Wooster, Cooke and Moore... Which double act is the Proposal going to be subjected to next?! Or maybe we're just the three provincial stooges...

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I'm getting a bit worried that I may have written a comic voice acting cheque for which there are insufficient funds in my account. Hopefully you two can carry me :)
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Post by simonlarois »

Hang on...

It's a comedy?
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In thinking about my role, for some reason the image of Michael Winner saying "Calm down dear" keeps popping into my mind.
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'It's only a proposal...'
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You two are quite impossible. :D
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Post by timberwolfmage »

"Oar" has been how I've always pronounced it, with maybe a slight lengthening drag. It's an elided two syllables, not exactly just one, but just going with "oar" will do it for you.
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