empretzeled

[Mark Mandel]

With an "i" /I/ or an "a" /æ/?

mam

On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 4:05 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

> At 5/21/2009 05:07 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
> >At 4:47 PM -0400 5/21/09, Benjamin Zimmer wrote:
> >Sorry for the e-mail-outio praecox.  That last
> >message was supposed to have read:
> >
> >and their French cousin (or cousine?), "emmerdé"
>
> On this side of the pond, we used to say "be-s-----n".
>
>

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