So I have started tinkering with a set of words on a page, and I was trying out rhythms, and I came to a bit of an issue.
The word juggling. Is it two syllables or three?
YouTube offers a variety of videos just saying the word. Try this one:
Still not sure. Is it JUG-gling? That’s what the letters indicate, but the combination of sounds together makes it sound more like JUG-gul-ING, ainna?
I am sure I have mentioned that I pronounce words I learned from reading incorrectly. I have to wonder how many of my poems are actually incorrectly stressed when someone smarter than me reads them because they know the words from the sounds.
Ah! Therein is the bit of humor. Nobody at all reads them. So my ignorance remains safely hidden.
