Anglicization

[Jonathan Lighter]

That's ObAYma.

JL

On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 8:23 AM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

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> At 10/9/2010 12:37 AM, Ben Zimmer wrote:
> >The Economist's Johnson blog recently faulted Obama for using the "ah"
> >pronunciation:
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> >http://www.economist.com/blogs/johnson/2010/09/barack_obama
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> Well, it's the year for Obama-bashing.
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> Joel
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