What to call what Rush Limbaugh does

[Herb Stahlke]

Is there a correlation between the -or spelling of the suffix and
Compound Stress?  I don't think I've heard Compound Stress on -er
spellings, but I've heard the compound stressed, spelling
prounciations aviaTOR, educaTOR, execuTOR, administraTOR, etc.  Not
bloviaTOR, though.

Herb


On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 2:23 AM, Randy Alexander
<strangeguitars at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 2:50 AM, Brian Hitchcock <brianhi at skechers.com> wrote:
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>> At our house, we call Mr. Limbaugh “The Bloviater.â€
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> Shouldn't that be "Bloviator"?
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>> Blo-vi-ate    intr.v. blo-vi-at-ed, blo-vi-at-ing, blo-vi-ates    Slang
>> To discourse at length in a pompous or boastful manner: "the rural Babbitt
>> who bloviates about 'progress' and 'growth'" (George Rebeck). [Mock-Latinate
>> formation, from blow.]
>> (from Farlex Free Dictionary; the site lists three related links above this
>> definition, all re Bill O’Reilly (!))
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