[David Landrum]

Originally Posted by Maryann Corbett

We should probably bear in mind that Byron's pronunciation of Don Juan was "don JOO-un" and of Don Quixote, "don KWIK-sote."

In Sheridan's A School for Scandal the prologue gives a speech where "wrote" and "Quixote" rhyme. That's kind of like the Romantic poets with PROS-er-pine.

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