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I guess it's a regional pronunciation, Malone!

How about the nursery rhyme......
Hickory, dickory, dock,
the mouse ran up the clock.
The clock struck ONE,
the mouse was GONE.
Hickory, dickory , dock!

I've always thought that was a defective rhyme!

You've lost me there, Chris.......?

In Wiltshire (where I came from) the rhyme went

the clock struck one
and down he run


just to confuse the issue......

At least a 'local' rhyme, jg.
Here in London, where I live now, everyone seems to say "the mouse ran down".... no attempt whatsoever at any rhyme! I tell them it cannot be a nursery 'rhyme' if it doesn't even rhyme!!

Going round in circles, elle - I've never heard ONE pronounced to rhyme with GONE. Which part of Lancashire were you from?

Come to think of it, I generally heard "mouse ran down".

In the very posh parts of Surrey, they would say

the mice ran dine and went rind the rindabout...

...the rindabite