How would you pronounce "anagrind"?

[Paul E Collins]

Just curious: how do people pronounce "anagrind" (the moderately-common
abbreviation around here for "anagram indicator")?

I knew what it meant before I understood the etymology; rather than
"anagr"+"ind", I saw it as "ana"+"grind", and would have pronounced it
accordingly -- imagining some "grinding" to be going on, as if the letters
were passing through cogs. I still find it a bit strange for "grind" to
rhyme with "wind".

Eq.

[Peter T. Daniels]

I've never supposed it referred to anything but grinding a word up
(into its letters), so I've never thought of it as anything but
ana(gram) + grind.

Note that "wind" could rhyme with "grind" even in the late 19th
century -- the line from *Ruddigore* is always pronounced "When the
night whined howls, in the chimney cowls," and WSG didn't rhyme it
with anything, in the song or elsewhere.

[The Last Danish Pastry]

"Paul E Collins" <equi...@cl4.invalid> wrote in message
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Like that well known stripper - Anna Grind.

--
Clive

[David Akenhead]

On Sep 1, 11:50 pm, "The Last Danish Pastry" <cli...@gmail.com> wrote:
> "Paul E Collins" <equi+...@cl4.invalid> wrote in messagenews:op.v05fn...@flay.home...

poledancer, surely!

[Rodders]

"David Akenhead" wrote in message
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poledancer, surely!

I've told you before, don't call me surely!!!! :-)

[Mark Brader]

"Anagram indicator". And I spell it that way, too.
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