ggg: Rhyme Sightings (Reader Comments and Addenda)
Carl Muckenhoupt notes that in the line
Dull, bull; Geoffrey, George ate late,
"ate" is probably meant to be pronounced /Et/ rather than the more standard American /eIt/. I agree; I had been baffled by the inclusion of two rhyming words on that line, but that pronunciation makes it make sense.
(Last updated: 30 March 1999)