blowzy

[Laurence Horn]

On Jan 23, 2013, at 8:07 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:

> I've begun noticing /hau s at z/ too - but only recently.
>
> If it was in use in NYC when I was growing up, I never noticed it. Nor do I
> recall it being mentioned in linguistics classes when the greasy/greasy
> variation was discussed.
>
> The first time it caught my attention (can't say exactly when, probably on
> cable news, probably within the last five years), I couldn't believe it.
>
> JL

I've noticed it too now and again, and also (on the other side of the coin) /hauzwaivz/ as the plural of /hauswaif/.  (Along the lines of "sleptwalked".)

LH
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> On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 7:56 AM, Charles C Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu> wrote:
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>> How about the plural of "house"?  I hear [-s at z] pretty often from
>> non-Southerners.  Not sure about "housing."
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>> --Charlie
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>> Larry and I must have gone to the same elementary school.  (In an
>> earlier message I said I might say "lausi" in the same circumstances
>> -- when meaning "infested with lice".)
>>
>> Joel
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>> At 1/22/2013 04:56 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>>> Not me.
>>>
>>> JL
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 3:58 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu
>>> wrote:
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>>>> On Jan 22, 2013, at 8:08 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
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>>>>> I grew up with both / grisi/ and / grizi /, but never in all my life
>>>> have I
>>>>> heard / lausi /.
>>>>>
>>>>> JL
>>>>
>>>> I don't know if I've heard it either, but I can imagine saying it if
>> what
>>>> I meant was "infested with lice".  Of course I might just say
>>>> "lice/louse-infested" or "infested with lice", but what I don't think
>> I'd
>>>> say is "/lauzi/". If I were reading out loud and came across "lousy"
>> with
>>>> that meaning, I'd probably pronounce it "louse-y", to rhyme with
>> "mousy".
>>>>
>>>> LH
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 1:11 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
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>>>>>> On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 8:10 AM, Charles C Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>> A reminder:  In many varieties of Southern American English
>> (including
>>>>>> my own and, I would expect, Wilson's) "blouse" and "lousy" are
>>>> pronounced
>>>>>> with a [z].  Unlike > in the [s]-speaking parts of the
>> country(which is
>>>>>> most of them?).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Wait. What? Of *course* these two words are pronounced with a [z]!
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