Re: /ru:m/ for Rome and the Gods of the Copybook Headings

 Ar an cúigiú lá déag de mí Iúil, scríobh jerryfriedman:

 > [...] I don't follow, since "come" doesn't rhyme with "doom". Kipling's
 > rhyme looks like an ordinary eye rhyme, though I don't know whether at some
 > point "come" rhymed with some pronunciation of "Rome".

Well, it certainly doesn’t rhyme with the current pronunciation of <Rome>, and
it comes much closer to rhyming with <doom>.

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