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Beverly Flanigan flanigan at OHIO.EDU
Thu Jul 19 19:47:32 UTC 2007


I'm not sure what South Midlanders would do with the verb, frankly; I don't
think I've ever heard it (I'm not a native here).  But the Columbus
newspaper is the DIS-patch locally (we're 70 miles southeast of Columbus).

At 03:32 PM 7/19/2007, you wrote:
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>But, don't you dis-PATCH from DIS-patch?
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>On 7/19/07, Beverly Flanigan <flanigan at ohio.edu> wrote:
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> > The fight really isn't worth fighting, Wilson!  Do you fuss about
> > UM-brella
> > and DIS-patch too, btw?  Perfectly normal South Midland pronunciations.
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> > At 03:11 PM 7/19/2007, you wrote:
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> > >"FOR-midable" is currently being used in the voice-over for an ad that
> > >occasionally runs on local TV. Otherwise, it's been dekkids, ca. the
> > >Vietnam era, since I've heard the word used. As for "exquisite," I
> > >hear it all the time on TV, on the radio, and in the wild, and it's
> > >always "ex-QUIsite." I fight the good fight and continue to use
> > >"EX-quisite," but I'm pretty much alone in that. Even my wife uses
> > >"ex-QUIsite."
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> > >-Wilson
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> > >On 7/18/07, James Harbeck <jharbeck at sympatico.ca> wrote:
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> > > > >I say, "Well, you never know." In the '50's, IIRC, "FOR-midable"
> > > > >became "for-MIDable." Now, the word seems to have returned to
> > > > >"FOR-midable." OTOH, the shift of "EX-quisite" to "ex-QUIsite," which
> > > > >may have occurred around the same time - memory fails - appears to be
> > > > ><sob!> permanent.
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> > > > Funny. I use "forMIDable" and am used to hearing that; I only expect
> > > > "FORmidable" from Brits. OTOH, I'm quite used to "EXquisite"; I use
> > > > it myself (but not invariably -- however, I don't have a clear
> > > > criterion to trot out governing my choice; I suspect it's related to
> > > > which pronunciation I've most recently heard, and perhaps which
> > > > general tone or register I'm using) and I think I may hear it more
> > > > often than "exQUISite," though I can't say so with certainty, since I
> > > > don't hear either all that often.
> > > >
> > > > James Harbeck.
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