Is it pronounced forehead or forehead?
The noun forehead has two pronunciations. The traditional realization in RP – the formal British pronunciation – made ‘forehead‘ rhyme with ‘horrid’ (IPA: /ˈfɒr ɪ (or ɛ)d/.
Is the H silent in forehead?
When I was a child, the word forehead had a silent h, and rhymed with horrid – as evidenced by the nursery rhyme There was a little girl and she had a little curl/ Right in the middle of her forehead/ When she was good she was very very good/ But when she was bad she was horrid.
Why is forehead called forehead?
Your forehead is the top part of your face, just below your hairline and above your eyebrows. Forehead has the Old English roots fore, “the front part,” and heafod, “top of the body,” or “head.”
What is a fore head?
In human anatomy, the forehead is an area of the head bounded by three features, two of the skull and one of the scalp. The top of the forehead is marked by the hairline, the edge of the area where hair on the scalp grows.