mediots and preglimony

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Tue Jul 17 16:08:03 UTC 2012


On Jul 17, 2012, at 11:51 AM, Arnold Zwicky wrote:

> on my blog:
> http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2012/07/17/more-dubious-portmanteaus/
>
Thanks.  The only thing that could save "preglimony" would be an antepenultimate stress, to rhyme with "Bimini" and "simony".  Not to mention "chiminey". And "womeny".  But that pronunciation would render it even more opaque.

LH

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