Because every creative lyricist, songwriter, rapper, and poet insists on proper OED phonetics and pronunciation to make their 7th grade English teacher proud.
Merlin and Berlin are proper nouns. There is one way to pronounce both, and they don’t rhyme. Merlin stresses the first syllable and Berlin stresses the second syllable. Rhyming traditionally says that the stressed syllable’s vowel sound and everything afterwards have to be the same sound.
Totally off base here, but I'm curious if you, Quizmaster, listen to the podcast Trivial Warfare. I ask because I literally just heard 3 of these questions within a few episodes. Maybe it's just coincidence. Also, if you don't listen to it...you should start.
Agree. It wasn't terribly burdensome to re-do it. And I know that "situation" is the most accurate answer; but, the fact that it functions as an adjective makes it all-the-more-reasonable to expect and accept the addition of an adjectival suffix.
"Mitsubishi" in Japanese actually means "three water chestnuts," and the water chestnut has traditionally been used as a symbol for the diamond shape in Japan.
Technically Germany didn't attack Finland but did fight against in Finns on Finnish soil in Lapland War. The Germans retreated in Lapland using the "scorched earth" method, attacking and burning down the largest city in Lapland, Rovaniemi, for example. And yes, Soviet Union certainly did attack Finland even though I'm not sure if they ever admitted it directly.
Rhyming is based on the vowel sound of the stressed syllable and everything after it. Merlin and Dublin both stress the first syllable, so Merlin rhymes with words that end in “erlin” and stress the “er” syllable. Dublin rhymes with “ublin” words, which are none, I believe.
Urban myth? A physician in Haverhill, Massachusetts is the one who first weighed the soul. Put terminally ill patients, bed and all, on a special scale, immediately before and after they died. Subtracted the latter measurement from the former and determined that whatever had departed had weighed, on average, 3/4 of an ouce. That's just math.
A woman has a security cam image of a car hitting a deer in front of her house. When it fell and died, you clearly can see a white mist rise from the body and move off. So the soul is probably real & now we have it on camera and know what it weighs. Still have not captured God on camera or proof of any religion, really, tho.
Try using Occam's Razor on that. That is, actually inform yourself of the procesess the body goes through immediately after death, and/or check the credibility of the claim, before inventing spirits to fill in the gaps of your knowledge of the natural world.
the magic mirror first of all said snow white's stepmother was the fairest of them all, until snow white overtook her - accept 'stepmother' etc? it was my first thought since the mirror routinely gave that answer, and gave the answer 'snow white' only once
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just wondering if Finland should be counted as well.
I read that just before asking for it myself.
So that makes at least 2 of us that believe
Dublin rhymes with Merlin.
I think it is the last syllable that makes the rhyme.
not Pope Paul II