pundints

[Neal Whitman]

This is a resend after a spam-filter problem that I hope has been resolved.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Neal Whitman" <nwhitman at ameritech.net>
To: "American Dialect Society" <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 11:38 PM
Subject: Re: pundints


> One person I know who grew up in central Ohio pronounces 'magnet' with an
> engma for the [g]: 'mangnet'. I'll have to see if I can elicit a token of
> 'magma' to see if the same thing happens there.
>
> Neal Whitman
>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Herb Stahlke" <hfwstahlke at GMAIL.COM>
>> To: <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
>> Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 10:12 PM
>> Subject: pundints
>>
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>>> Sender:       American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
>>> Poster:       Herb Stahlke <hfwstahlke at GMAIL.COM>
>>> Subject:      pundints
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>>>
>>> McCain is getting ribbed by MSNBC personalities, so far Olbermann and
>>> Maddow, for his phonological phenomenon of nasal spreading.  Both of
>>> them commented this evening on his nasalization of the second syllable
>>> of "pundit".  This nasal spreading is not all that uncommon in
>>> American English.  I've frequently heard native speakers say "ompen"
>>> for "open," and even a nonce "candy ampple" for "candy apple."  Has
>>> anyone found any social or geographical distribution to this
>>> phenomenon?  I've heard it from both well educated speakers and high
>>> school dropouts, so I doubt that social class, or, at least,
>>> education, is significant.
>>>
>>> Herb
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