[ale] Microsoft haiku...(OT)

[Michael D. Hirsch]

On Thursday 24 July 2003 05:09 pm, Danny Cox wrote:
> Brian,
>
> 	A small correction:
>
> On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 18:11, Brian J. Dowd wrote:
> > ------------------------------------------
> > The Window closes.
> > Nothing will open it now.
> > Everything lost.
>
> 	The third line has only 4 sylables.  How about "Everything is lost." or
> "Everything was lost."?

You must use m-w.com which says "everything" has 3 syllables, but 
dictionary.com has two different pronuciations, one of which has 4 
syllables.  A crude survey at work (2 respondants) says that "every 
pronounces it with 3 syllables, but it should be 4."

I vote to leave it as it is.

Strangly enough, dictionary.com says that the pronuciation differs 
according to whether it is used as a noun or pronoun.  From their examples 
I can't tell which they would say "Everything lost" is.

Michael

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