On 08/29/2017 12:31 PM, NY wrote:

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The only evidence of the obsolete "forehead" pronunciation is the
rhyming in Longfellow's

There was a little girl,
Who had a little curl,
Right in the middle of her forehead.
When she was good,
She was very good indeed,
But when she was bad she was horrid.

I thought that old pronunciation was corruption by someone who couldn't
take the time to say it right.

Another oddity is "mustache" spelled with something like "ios" at the end.

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