Heard on local NE PA news

[Herb Stahlke]

Or, as an old friend used to say, "Hou[s]es are brothels; hou[z]es are
domiciles."

Herb

On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 2:18 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
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> At 11:03 AM -0800 1/26/10, Arnold Zwicky wrote:
>>On Jan 26, 2010, at 9:44 AM, Larry Horn wrote:
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>>>I don't know if this has been discussed here or elsewhere, but I
>>>noticed a radio ad this morning promoting some upcoming game by
>>>describing the teams involved as "powerhouses", with the
>>>pronunciation /paw at rhausIz/...
>>
>>/hausiz/ for the plural "houses" is common enough that you'd need to
>>get more information about the speaker's pronunciations.
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> True for the radio announcer, but as noted I'm pretty sure I'd be
> likely to pronounce "powerhou[s]es" with a voiceless fricative if
> it's a metaphorical use but I'd never pronounce it that way if it's
> used literally (as an endocentric compound, as in "lighthouses",
> "outhouses").  Is there anyone else who shares that intuition?  If
> it's just me, I withdraw the claim.
>
>>>Arnold (or Ben), is there a Language Log posting on "powerhou[s]es"
>>>or analogous cases?
>>
>>i don't recall any.
>>
>>arnold
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