hard words on TV! Part deux

[Benjamin Barrett]

Trip, trap, trip trap.

BTW, is this onomotopoeic expression from Norwegian, and if so, what
sound exactly does it stand for? Does it have any other use in English
besides the Three Billy Goats Gruff?

Benjamin Barrett


Tom Zurinskas wrote:
> I'd go with ~speesheez instead of ~speeshees (species).
>
> I call it tradnouncing or tradtalking (saying a phoneme in a most familiar
> way as it would be pronounced for most traditonal spelling).  I call
> traditional spelling, tradspel.
>
>

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