I say "Lusitan-i-ay"

[Jonathan Lighter]

OK, I meant "principle." So sue me.

JL


On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 8:02 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
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> On Aug 20, 2014, at 7:46 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
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> > In this thread from many years ago I noted that Matthew Arnold =
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> > rhymed  "Lusitania" with "I say" back in 1879.
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> > Here's another, if less formal example of the same principal.
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> > Fiddlin' John Carson and His Virgina Reelers recorded a song about the
> > Civil War called "Dixie Division" in 1924.  You can very distinctly =
> hear
> > Fiddlin' John a-singin' "Georgia, Alabama, Flori-day."
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> It was only later, when they discovered fluoridation was a Commie plot, =
> that they changed it to Flori-duh.
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> LH
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> > That's the normal "George-uh" and "Alabam-uh," Not "Georgy" or =
> "Alabammy."
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> > Go, as they say, figger.
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> > JL
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