molest, n.

[Wilson Gray]

On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 8:34 PM, Arnold Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu> wrote:
> a truncation of "molestation"

I wonder whether the jargonic use licenses the pronunciation
"MAH-list" [,malIst], "MAW-list" [,mOlIst], or some such?

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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
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