[LMB] An attack of limericks

[Peter Granzeau]

Nicol is Scottish, not French, a form of Nicholas (which, as you notice, is accented on the first syllable).  French doesn't have a strong stress in words, anyway; the two syllables of "Nicole" would have almost identical stresses.  The audio version may, after all, be wrong.

At 04:29 PM 4/30/2008, Meg Justus wrote:
>Er, not to be a wet blanket or anything, but the audio version pronounces 
>Nicol like Nicole (ni-COLE), so the first line doesn't rhyme.  Other than 
>that and the pronoun issue, it's lovely. 

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Regards, Pete
pgranzeau at cox.net