How to make your horn work?

Subject: How to make your horn work?
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 24 Dec 06 - 02:57 PM

I've been thinking. There's a CD I have in which the hunter winds his horn, and he singer sings "wind" as in north wind, south wind, baked beans, etc. Logical really.

But I've heard other songs in which the hunter has wound his horn - and that's definitely the same verb as clokckwork-wind-up-toy (to rhyme with "find".

What ddo we think?

Subject: RE: How to make your horn work?
From: kendall
Date: 24 Dec 06 - 03:01 PM

He wound his horn? Was this Dick Cheney?

Subject: RE: How to make your horn work?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 24 Dec 06 - 03:02 PM

My eyes water at the thought Richard
G.

Subject: RE: How to make your horn work?
From: Scrump
Date: 24 Dec 06 - 03:19 PM

I think (but I'm not 100% sure, maybe someone else can confirm) that the word 'wind' as in breeze, hurricane, etc., used to be pronounced to rhyme with 'find' in olden days, as some old songs confirm (I can't think of an example right now, but I'm sure there are some).

Merry Bloomin' Xmas.

Subject: RE: How to make your horn work?
From: Cruiser
Date: 24 Dec 06 - 03:29 PM

Uh Richard...you been ahittin' the eggnog a bit too much?

Subject: RE: How to make your horn work?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 24 Dec 06 - 03:42 PM

Blow blow ye westren wynd

Subject: RE: How to make your horn work?
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 24 Dec 06 - 04:04 PM

So what about "he has wound his horn"?

Subject: RE: How to make your horn work?
From: GUEST
Date: 24 Dec 06 - 04:20 PM

TYPO -

W is above S on a standard "pqwerty" key=bored

Subject: RE: How to make your horn work?
From: Fliss
Date: 24 Dec 06 - 04:39 PM

Surely its wind as in wind up a clock.

Subject: RE: How to make your horn work?
From: Fidjit
Date: 24 Dec 06 - 05:31 PM

Viagra

Subject: RE: How to make your horn work?
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 25 Dec 06 - 06:00 AM

I cannae raise the wind in Tramps and Hawkers rhymes with find.

Tommy this and Tommy that and Tommy walk behind
but it's please to walk in front, sir, when there's trouble in the wind - Kipling

I think poetry and songwriting have their own rules of pronunciation.

...from St George I received this wound
but, hark I hear a silver trumpet sound

:D (tG)

Subject: RE: How to make your horn work?
From: Rasener
Date: 25 Dec 06 - 02:42 PM

Give it a good blow

Subject: RE: How to make your horn work?
From: GUEST,Dani
Date: 25 Dec 06 - 08:51 PM

See the BS thread re: 35 years.

Dani

Subject: RE: How to make your horn work?
From: Joe_F
Date: 25 Dec 06 - 09:05 PM

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".