Line cut?

[Beverly Flanigan]

My interpretation of the joke was that a Southerner (not South Midlander)
who normally monophthongized both 'lion' and 'line' was trying too hard to
make her pronunciation of "line cut" clear, and the exaggeration came out
as [la:@n], which I assume would be Southern for "lion."  So a perhaps
invented "line cut" leads to the gross lion cut on the cat.

At 10:11 PM 3/22/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>According to the urban legend trackers at snopes.com, lion cuts are a
>standard grooming technique -- but snopes is skeptical of the "line cut"
>story, saying they've found no evidence of any such term...
>http://www.snopes.com/photos/lioncut.asp
>
>-David Colburn
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Laurence Horn" <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
>To: <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
>Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2003 7:04 PM
>Subject: Re: Line cut?
>
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> > Sender:       American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> > Poster:       Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
> > Subject:      Re: Line cut?
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> > Ron Butters writes:
> > >If you still have the foto of the cat with the lion cut, I'd love to see
>it.
> > >
> > >The difference between LION and LINE as pronounced in the South Midlands
>is
> > >very hard for ousiders to hear.
> > >
> > >In a message dated 2/26/03 1:41:50 PM, dcamp911 at JUNO.COM writes:
> > >
> > >
> > >>  I pass this on in the spirit of recent posts on Southern speech. It
>came
> > >>  to me with a photo. If anyone would like to see the photo, contact me
>off
> > >  > list. (Cat lovers need not apply)
> > >  >
> > It's at http://infinitemonkey.org/funny/cats/linecut.html
> >
> > I suspect an urban legend, but one never knows.
> >
> > L
> >