How to pronounce bow in "bow legs"

bluestblue wrote:

kickycan wrote:
who's with me here? "Mole eggs" DOES rhyme with "bow legs!"

Does my concurrence count?

Of course! I'll take all the concurrence I can get.

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kickycan wrote:

bluestblue wrote:
kickycan wrote:
who's with me here? "Mole eggs" DOES rhyme with "bow legs!"

Does my concurrence count?

Of course! I'll take all the concurrence I can get.

It will do you no good.

Mole rhymes with bowl, knoll, troll, foal, dole, hole.

SULLYFISH66 wrote:

But when would "bow legs" ever be used?

It would always be "bowed legs"

and "knocked knees", too.

Nonsense. A person is described as being bow legged from riding, and therefore has bow legs.

Knees would only be knocked if they were to strike a table leg or such.

(I knocked my knee on the table leg, adding to my woe, since, as you know, my legs are bow.......and, as though me to tease were the high Pyrenees of some deity's ease, I have knock knees.)

Edit:

Kicky...you're just teasing, right? You CAN hear the difference? Because I know some folk do have trouble recognizing such things.

I had to learn to transcribe in the phonetic alphabet for some damn reason when I was doing a linguistics topic years aga. Some people just couldn't do it.

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i think bow-legged rhymes with pigeon-toed...

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Region Philbis wrote:

i think bow-legged rhymes with pigeon-toed...

You having neither legs, knees nor toes, you will forgive me if I am not bowled over by the likelihood of your knowing aught about that which you so blithely animadvert to.

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I honestly don't hear the difference.

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kickycan wrote:

I honestly don't hear the difference.

This is so frustrating!!!!

Now I want to ring you, or at least voice chat, just so I can help you get it.

Really...you hear no difference in the "o" sound between:

Boeing
Bowling?

Sewing
Strolling?

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dlowan wrote:

Mole rhymes with bowl, knoll, troll, foal, dole, hole.

Here's what I'm thinking. How could "mole" rhyme with "bowl" yet those same four letters, in the words "bow legs" don't? How could that be? They are the same letters even! The only difference is a space! Are you saying that space changes the pronunciation of the "ow?" Or are you saying that the hesitation indicated by the space between the two words is the difference in the pronunciation?

Other than that, I'm at a loss. Could it just be our respective accents that are causing the problem?

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O is o is o....
Bow legged rhymes with Ho Pegged....

Aussie Ohs must be strange, and I live in the birthplace of Boeing....

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Bowlegged
Click the hear it button

I think it's saying "just bowl" but what do I know?
Click hear it button

I'm hearing "sun boat", but it's suppose to be Bow.
click it, the hear it button

And here's a bowlegged song.
Bowlegged Daddio

(I'm just confusing the issue, aren't I?)

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yes, bad deer....

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Hey, Rocky....

http://images.jupiterimages.com/common/detail/03/79/23337903.jpg

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Caribou,

Big Raspberry noise back at ya.

I'm Tech not so smart.....

see avatar.

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kickycan wrote:

dlowan wrote:
Mole rhymes with bowl, knoll, troll, foal, dole, hole.

Here's what I'm thinking. How could "mole" rhyme with "bowl" yet those same four letters, in the words "bow legs" don't? How could that be? They are the same letters even! The only difference is a space! Are you saying that space changes the pronunciation of the "ow?" Or are you saying that the hesitation indicated by the space between the two words is the difference in the pronunciation?

Other than that, I'm at a loss. Could it just be our respective accents that are causing the problem?

With English, you have to stop looking at the spelling, or you'll go nuts.

Take "the" for instance.

How is the vowel in "the" pronounced in the next two examples?

1. The end

2. The beginning.

Did you notice that in 1 the "the" is pronounced as "thee"?

Did you notice that in 2 "the" is pronounced quite differently? It is the same sound as the "er" sound in "lover"...NOT an "ee" sound at all.

"The" is only pronounced "thee" before a vowel in English. Some people persist in hearing it as "thee" all the time, because of the spelling. That is just one example of differences in sound we are often not conscious of.

I don't think it is an accent thing for us...though some very cultured English accents would pronounce "bowl" to rhyme with "bow". I have never heard this pronunciation in any American accent so far.....not that that rules it out as a possibility, though.

Caribou's links lead to pronunciations of "bow" and "bowl" that are very different to my ear. Do they sound "right" to you? Can you hear the difference?

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Rabbit, if you was to visit Kansas for a month we would have to institutionalize ya.... Shocked

It's thuh in all of thuh examples....

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Rockhead wrote:

Rabbit, if you was to visit Kansas for a month we would have to institutionalize ya....

It's thuh in all of thuh examples....

Well, Kansas.......yes, quite.

It usually isn't, though.

Laughing

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Now I'm wondering if I use Thee correctly, if I use it at all.

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Okay, technically, if I listen REAAAAALLY hard I can BARELY hear that the "o" sound has a teeny tiny bit more of a "w" sound at the end in the word "mole."

Even so, I'd be willing to bet that if one were to repeat the words "mow legs" and then the words "mole eggs" to a hundred people, 99 of them wouldn't be able to tell any difference. The only one who MIGHT notice any difference would be the funny-looking furry one with the big floppy ears and the party favor sticking out of her mouth. They are so close as to be virtually indistinguishable in normal speech, is what I think.

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kickycan wrote:

Okay, technically, if I listen REAAAAALLY hard I can BARELY hear that the "o" sound has a teeny tiny bit more of a "w" sound at the end in the word "mole."

Even so, I'd be willing to bet that if one were to repeat the words "mow legs" and then the words "mole eggs" to a hundred people, 99 of them wouldn't be able to tell any difference. The only one who MIGHT notice any difference would be the funny-looking furry one with the big floppy ears and the party favor sticking out of her mouth. They are so close as to be virtually indistinguishable in normal speech, is what I think.

Bet caribou can hear it.

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Yeah, I can hear the difference. I was wondering what Kicky's accent sounds like... Kicky, are you a born and bred New Yorker?

(This might be the problem)

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