siditty, saditty (1963), siddity (1965)

[Mullins, Bill]

suh-DIT-eh

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> >No, it sounded clearly like "saditty", and the
> closed-captioning agreed.
> >
>
> With what stress?  If it's antepenult, I certainly can't
> detect any huge difference in how "SADitty" and "SADurday"
> would sound, especially with a non-rhotic pronunciation of
> the latter.  But if it's stressed in another way, there's no
> possibility of confusion, even without the support of the
> closed-captioning.
>
> Larry
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> >>  Could this be simply 'Saturday Whore'?
> >>
> >>  --- "Mullins, Bill" <Bill.Mullins at US.ARMY.MIL> wrote:
> >>
> >>  > I mentioned last week that I saw the movie "Barbershop 2", in
> >> which  > Eddie calls his ex-girlfriend a "saditty ho".  My wife's
> >> reaction was  > that "saditty" meant "sadistic", which would have
> >> been appropriate  > under the circumstances.
> >>  >
> >>
> >>
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