Vegan prescriptivism

Douglas G. Wilson douglas at NB.NET
Fri Jun 29 13:12:20 UTC 2001


>I was actually looking to find other expressions where dog/cat are
>contrasted (other than 'raining cats & dogs' and 'fight like cats & dogs').

Referring to stocks, etc.: e.g.:

http://www.xrefer.com/entry/587504
http://www.diehardindian.com/news/news1504.htm
http://www.tc2000.com/privuser2/wordenreportfebruary1999.htm

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When "ga" is (unusually) pronounced with "soft 'g'" (/dZ/), is some special
semantic baggage conveyed? Consider "margarine", "veganism", "gaol". (^_^)

-- Doug Wilson



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