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

On Tue, 16 Jul 2024 7:23:45 +0000, Aidan Kehoe wrote:

>
 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>.

Closer in what dialect?  Not mine, not that it's relevant to
Kipling.  You can hear his pronunciation in a speech at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDcdKA4_KBM
I still think the spelling was at least as important as the sound,
and Kipling was much more likely to rhyme "Rome" with "come"
than with "hum", "dumb", etc.
--
Jerry Friedman