Friday, May 29, 2009

Sotomayor -- a minor point

With all the talk of the pronunciation of Sonia Sotomayor's surname, has anyone else thought of Golda Meir this week?

"Why did I think of her?" I asked myself.

Could it be the fourth paeon -- the mertic foot consisting of three shorts and a long: ~~~' ??

Of course, if you accent the first syllable in "Golda" it doesn't work, since you have a choriamb instead.

But close enough for government work, to which Judge Sotomayor aspires.

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