That is the version the town accepts as true.
Ah, St. Patricks Day in Rolla, best week of the year.
Really?
No, Rally.
No cite, but some of my profs in graduate school pronounced it like that.
Neither did you, apparently. Raleigh and Rally rhyme because the second syllable in both is pronounced the same, “lee”. Words don’t have to be homophones to rhyme. How do you not know that?
In the strictest sense, a rhyme is based upon the last stressed syllable, not the last syllable. Words that only match the final unstressed sound make pretty weak rhymes.
I know that the final syllables rhyme.
I also know what Mrs. Jeleniewski would say if I tried to rhyme “Resolutely” with “Consequentially” in an assignment.
Next up, we discuss how Emily Dickenson was the worst poet in history.
Where I come from, Rally and Raleigh are pronounced the same.
We make a good team.
Joking apart, Rally is a pretty common way of pronouncing the name. I’ve been hearing it that way all my life.
Maybe your profs said ‘Rawley’ and you are misremembering. That is one of several spelling that he himself used.
(Actually, he used vv not w)
Czarcasm, please read the following link. Half rhyme. Pay close attention to how Yeats (yes, THAT Yeats) rhymes “bodies” with “ladies”.
There, you learned something today.
Okay, apparently I have been mentally mispronouncing Sir Walter Raleigh’s last name all my life. (I’m reminded of that Simpsons episode where Marge says “Bart! Run like the wind [pronounced whined]!” and Lisa says “It’s wind [pronounced winned], Mom!” and Marge says “Well I’ve only ever read it in books!”)
Anyway, I always mentally pronounce his name as ral-LAY, where “ral” rhymes with “pal.” How’s it really pronounced?
I’ve always pronounced it RAW-ley. But Lennon disagrees with me. He cursed Sir Walter ‘Rally’; he was such a stupid get.
I’m so tired of hearing that, Jack.
Let’s not drag your mother’s uterus into this.
The joke here, I think, is that Romantic poets (and earlier poets) clearly pronounced as Marge does, because of what they rhyme it with in otherwise-rhyming poems: mind, lined, etc.
Sure did.
I learned how some people can’t recognize a throwaway line when they see one.
It was an unwarranted crack on the guy, and you know it. That’s why Peter Morris asked you if you were accusing the guy of lying. Now you’re trying to weasel out of it.
Like you always do.
How does he pronounce his name?
BTW, if you want to get personal about it, I would appreciate it if you took it to The BBQ Pit-ATMB really isn’t the place for it.
If you wish to make unwarranted cracks about posters, how about if YOU do it in the BBQ pit.