Bad Taste Breakthrough! PLUS New Phoneme! (UNCLASSIFIED)

Thu Jul 22 14:36:23 UTC 2010

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: American Dialect Society [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On
> Behalf Of Jonathan Lighter
> Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2010 7:27 AM
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Subject: Re: Bad Taste Breakthrough! PLUS New Phoneme!
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> Pronounced the same as _S#*!_ ?
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> No kidding, if people do start saying (*Beep!*) to euphemize certain
> monosyllables, it will have become a phoneme of English.

As did "bippy" -- "you bet your sweet bippy", from Laugh-In, late 1960s.

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> A very bizarre one, but a phoneme nonetheless.
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