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kind of of topic, but i had to google to find out which female part rhymed with dolores, because it made no sense to me (as an ESL). (for people wondering, it'
by fernandotakai 1y ago
kind of of topic, but i had to google to find out which female part rhymed with dolores, because it made no sense to me (as an ESL).
(for people wondering, it's clitoris).
https://seinfeld.fandom.com/wiki/The_Junior_Mint https://seinfeld.fandom.com/wiki/The_Junior_Mint
https://seinfeld.fandom.com/wiki/Dolores https://seinfeld.fandom.com/wiki/Dolores
- philsnow 1y agoIn (American, at least) English, there's a very common pattern of vowel reduction on unstressed syllables, resulting in "schwa-ification" [0][1] where all such vowels become indistinguishable from each other. In this case, we say "duh lorr uhss" instead of "do lor ez". The second one doesn't sound like clitoris at all, but the first one.. okay it doesn't sound similar to me either, but it's closer at least. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_phonology#Unstressed_syllables https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_phonology#Unstressed_s... [1] "schwa" is the name of the mid, central, unrounded vowel, IPA [ə]
- trealira 1y agoI have to say that, the vast majority of the time, the way I've heard and said the word "clitoris" doesn't rhyme at all with "Dolores," so I wouldn't have been able to guess it either.