Imagine Rysmiel saying it, because that's essentially the same accent, and then it all scans -- to five stresses if not ten syllables. (If you can sing it to "Stairway to Heaven", it's iambic pentameter.)
I say "wide-ning". I mean, I don't say it very often in normal conversation, because it doesn't often come up, but if I were to say that word that's how I'd pronounce it.
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Date: 2004-09-09 06:48 am (UTC)I say "wide-ning". I mean, I don't say it very often in normal conversation, because it doesn't often come up, but if I were to say that word that's how I'd pronounce it.