"nuptuals" for nuptials

[Victoria Neufeldt]

'Esky at late/-ation' for 'escalate' is pretty common too.  I first heard
it in Toronto in the 1970s, used by a highly educated, middle-aged
man.

Victoria

Victoria Neufeldt
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: American Dialect Society
> [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU]On Behalf
> Of Arnold M. Zwicky
> Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 11:54 AM
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Subject: Re: "nuptuals" for nuptials
>
>
> On Feb 3, 2006, at 8:35 AM, sagehen wrote:
>
> > A short piece on NPR's Morning Edition today, regarding a
> trend toward
> > substituting charitable contributions for wedding presents, was
> > read with a
> > consistent pronunciation  "nuptual/s" for_nuptial/s_.
> >   It sounded familiar enough that I know I've heard it before. It
> > made me
> > wonder: is it regional or merely random, occasional confusion
> > influenced by
> > _factual, conceptual _, &c?
>
> it's pretty common.  another one to add to my file of morphological
> reanalyses (most of which i've posted about here: nucular,
> doctorial,
> overature, perculate/perculation/perculator, fellatiate, gal(l)iant,
> pectorials).
>
> arnold
>
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