Miss Elaine Eos wrote:
> In article <3f93t6F6jsofU2@individual.net>,
> "Mike Lyle" <mike_lyle_uk@REMOVETHISyahoo.co.uk> wrote:
[...]
>> (My message received a bizarrely excitable response from somebody,
>> and I wondered what I'd done. I concluded that he thought
>> "dum-di-dum" was an insult rather than a crude indication of the
>> stressed syllables! You meet all sorts round here.)
>
> Yeah, that's what I figured, too. But is it "DUM-di-dum" or
> "dum-DI-dum"?! ;)
>
> (It's "Dum-di-Dum", with smaller accents on the 1st & last.)
Well, if you want to get all technical, I'm immovably for
"DUM-di-dum": big stress, unstress, medium-biggish-sort-of-stress. My
spiritualist assures me that's what Shakespeare would have said, and
I reckon I could work it into Gray's Elegy at a few minutes' notice.
Rape of the Lock, mmm, a bit quicker maybe.
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Mike.
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Mike.
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