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Thread #97481   Message #1918925
Posted By: Joe_F
25-Dec-06 - 09:05 PM
Thread Name: How to make your horn work?
Subject: RE: How to make your horn work?
OED says the verb meaning to cause to sound (a horn etc.) is pronounced to rhyme either with finned or with fined, and that its past tense is properly winded, but "often...wound, by confusion with [the other sense of wind], perh. due to vague suggestion from the curved form of a horn or bugle".