How to make your horn work?

24 Dec 06 - 02:57 PM (#1918266)
Subject: How to make your horn work?
From: Richard Bridge

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?

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24 Dec 06 - 03:01 PM (#1918271)
Subject: RE: How to make your horn work?
From: kendall

He wound his horn? Was this Dick Cheney?

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24 Dec 06 - 03:02 PM (#1918272)
Subject: RE: How to make your horn work?
From: John MacKenzie

My eyes water at the thought Richard
G.

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24 Dec 06 - 03:19 PM (#1918290)
Subject: RE: How to make your horn work?
From: Scrump

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.

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24 Dec 06 - 03:29 PM (#1918296)
Subject: RE: How to make your horn work?
From: Cruiser

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

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24 Dec 06 - 03:42 PM (#1918303)
Subject: RE: How to make your horn work?
From: John MacKenzie

Blow blow ye westren wynd

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24 Dec 06 - 04:04 PM (#1918315)
Subject: RE: How to make your horn work?
From: Richard Bridge

So what about "he has wound his horn"?

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24 Dec 06 - 04:39 PM (#1918331)
Subject: RE: How to make your horn work?
From: Fliss

Surely its wind as in wind up a clock.

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24 Dec 06 - 05:31 PM (#1918364)
Subject: RE: How to make your horn work?
From: Fidjit

Viagra

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25 Dec 06 - 06:00 AM (#1918581)
Subject: RE: How to make your horn work?
From: Dave the Gnome

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)

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25 Dec 06 - 02:42 PM (#1918761)
Subject: RE: How to make your horn work?
From: Rasener

Give it a good blow

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25 Dec 06 - 08:51 PM (#1918923)
Subject: RE: How to make your horn work?
From: GUEST,Dani

See the BS thread re: 35 years.

Dani

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25 Dec 06 - 09:05 PM (#1918925)
Subject: RE: How to make your horn work?
From: Joe_F

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".

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