[Ads-l] Facebookery: _huzzies_ "hussies"

[paul johnson]

I always thought :Hussy: had a sort of classical ring to it. Once had a 
semi drunk bar customer call me over "Paul, meet my Floozie!" But never 
heard 'hussy' in the wild.


On 12/21/2018 12:06 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
> I've never seen this word spelled with _zz_, before. But the only person
> that I've known - he died ca. 1963 - who had _hussy_ in his active
> vocabulary always pronounced it with /z/.
>

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whom they profess to follow."   – Johnson, Idler #10 (June 17, 1758)

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