Pronounced TOM-uh-SKEV-itch.
Mrs. Tomaskiewicz was my third grade teacher. I remembered the other day that she used to say to us, whenever we boasted about some accomplishment, "Do you want a parade or a party?"
That was kind of mean because we were only nine and we were proud of ourselves.
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When I wrote the pronunciation, I noticed that it was the opposite of iambic (as in Shakespeare's iambic pentameter -- five iambs in a row: "From FORTH the FAtal LOINS of THESE two FOE"). I looked it up and when the stressed syllable comes before the unstressed syllable, it's called a trochee (adj trochaic): "DID he WHO made THE lamb MAKE thee?" The poetic norm is trochaic tetrameter, four trochees in a row, as we see above. In the case of Tomaskiewicz, we have trochaic dimeter.
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She had a greenhouse in her classroom where we kept the paper towels, and she always had a desk in her seating chart that was left empty but had a name-tag on it for Jesus.
Mrs. Tomaskiewicz was my third grade teacher. I remembered the other day that she used to say to us, whenever we boasted about some accomplishment, "Do you want a parade or a party?"
That was kind of mean because we were only nine and we were proud of ourselves.
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When I wrote the pronunciation, I noticed that it was the opposite of iambic (as in Shakespeare's iambic pentameter -- five iambs in a row: "From FORTH the FAtal LOINS of THESE two FOE"). I looked it up and when the stressed syllable comes before the unstressed syllable, it's called a trochee (adj trochaic): "DID he WHO made THE lamb MAKE thee?" The poetic norm is trochaic tetrameter, four trochees in a row, as we see above. In the case of Tomaskiewicz, we have trochaic dimeter.
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She had a greenhouse in her classroom where we kept the paper towels, and she always had a desk in her seating chart that was left empty but had a name-tag on it for Jesus.
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