[Ads-l] Another -ths > [Dz]

[Joel S. Berson]

At 1/4/2015 06:42 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:

>No! No! ARRRGHHHHHHHHHH!!

Why not?  "these [dEDZ]" = 'bodies, corpses'?

Joel


>JL
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>On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 11:48 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Sender:       American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> > Poster:       Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
> > Subject:      Another -ths > [Dz]
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> > TV dialogue, NCIS:
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> > "Were these deaths [dEDZ] necessary?"
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> > -Wilson

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