comic 1860s pronunciation?

[Mark Mandel]

Wonderful indeed. Our living room is enlivened by the wire-limbed likeness
of Ignatz sitting above Krazy Kat, who is oblivious to the brick about to be
tossed at his head.

But "Offisa Pup" is just a spelling pronunciation, without the metathesis of
"oSSiFer" and "aMiNal".

m a m

On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 10:44 PM, Arnold Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu> wrote:

> On Jan 18, 2010, at 7:24 PM, Victor Steinbok wrote:
>
> > ... I was under impression that "ossifer"
> > and similar expressions were quite common in jokes in the 1970s and
> > 80s.
>
> and back to the to early 1900s, with George Herriman's wonderful Krazy
> Kat comics, in which Offisa Pup played a central role.
>
>

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