Talk:makest

Pronunciation

I always assumed this to be two syllables, but just noticed the use in this poem, where it has to be one syllable. Is that then always the case? Equinox ◑ 15:30, 15 January 2017 (UTC)

• Rudyard Kipling, The Ballad of East and West

  Lightly answered the Colonel's son: "Do good to bird and beast,
  "But count who come for the broken meats before thou makest a feast.