What is really weird is that rhyme and rhythm do not use "rhy" in the same way.

My tempo by myself isn't hot -- I gather that most people, given their druthers, speed up in the middle of a song -- but I can follow someone else's tempo just fine. I think that the general populace believes that enthusiasm trumps actual ability, even in topics so basic as "when to clap".

Sort of like all those people who don't understand that we do not have their headphones and even if we did, we would not care for any sing-along assistance, especially not from the tone-deaf.

It allows you to mentally say "Clim-buh" and "com-buh."

Only if you're mentally illiterate.

Of course, I was the annoying friendless pedantic second-grader who RAILED against my classmates' pronunciation of "PUH-sketti" and "crown" (for "crayon").

And I still don't understand people who say "Missour-UH" and "Cincinnat-UH." There's a freaking I on the end of the names, people.

t edit ....and this is Buffista Conversation #562, isn't it? Time for the Groundhog Day thread!

It's because you climb with your limbs, although limb rhymes with rim, unlike climb, which rhymes with...well...rhyme.

You start worrying about that now, you'll never be done.

I wonder why I ever started. Stupid brain.

Also, what is the correct way to say "Arkansas"? I always say "are-can-saw".

I was the annoying friendless pedantic second-grader who RAILED against my classmates' pronunciation of "PUH-sketti" and "crown" (for "crayon").

When everyone knows the correct pronunciation is "puh-SKE-ti."

I wonder this too. And yet obviously they don't.

Of course, I spent a good twelve years playing the viola, which means I was playing offbeats half of the time. When I did a capella in grad school my voice wasn't the best, but damn if I couldn't pick up rhythms quickly.

I played saxophone for six years, but I already had good rhythm when I started. Of course, I went to a Baptist church, albeit a white one, from the cradle up, and used to have the run of the sanctuary as a very little girl while my parents were in choir practice, and I'm sure being thoroughly exposed to music at such a young age helped both my rhythm and ear for pitch.

When I was in first or second grade, I was really annoyed at the way "comb" is spelled.

Does anyone else have the thing where you know a word is spelled correctly, but the more you write it, the more wrong it looks? "Choir" and "sergeant" both have that effect on me, and since I'm in a choir and am writing a novel whose male protagonist is a sergeant, I have to write them all the time.

Does anyone else have the thing where you know a word is spelled correctly, but the more you write it, the more wrong it looks?

Yes. I blame that on brain-enfeeblement....

Also, what is the correct way to say "Arkansas"? I always say "are-can-saw".

That is correct. Except when it is correct to say "our-KAN-zass", which it apparently is occasionally, ie. the river in Kansas?

Does anyone else have the thing where you know a word is spelled correctly, but the more you write it, the more wrong it looks?

"Tartlets. Tartlets. The word has lost all meaning."