Southern consonant cluster collapse

Jonathan Lighter wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM
Sun Apr 28 12:10:03 UTC 2013


Old news (as when "shrimp" becomes "srimp") but timely because the latest
ricin arrestee is a Mississippian named {Dutschke}.

He and everybody on CNN says "Dusky."

JL

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