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[dukealien]

Thanks for the explanation, but I remain confused (please excuse my poor wooden head).

Your reference (below) actually gives

hur-met-ik-lee, which is how I used it (two iambs).  I might, under durress, use it as hur-met-ik-ah-lee, but most likely with humorous intent.

Incidentally, your handy reference gives

dif-er-uh nt, dif-ruh nt   http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/different?s=t

that is, the effectively two-syllable iamb as accepted though not preferred pronunciation.

However, particularly in the case of "different," I recognize a spot at which a reader will either have to read ahead or force the meter on spec to get my desired pronunciation, which is undesirable.  Still want to avoid the apostrophe, though, it seems dictatorial.  A different word will be sought.

[We'd better stop here lest mods accuse us of badinage in a proper criticism thread.  Be assured, your critique is taken seriously!]

Paul wrote: " ...you didn't complain about "hermetically" as two iambs"

hur-met-ik-lee          http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/hermetically?s=t


By the "rule of three", I allowed "hermetically". If you are unfamiliar with this (milo taught it to me) when writing IP, if there are three unaccented syllables together the middle one gets the accent, so...

hur-met-ik-lee

Thus nothing to complain about, which is why I said nothing, notwithstanding that I liked the line.


dale

(snip)