<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">L O W L A N D S - L - 14 November 2007 - Volume 03
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<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe"><span class="EP8xU" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">
Ben J. Bloomgren</span> <span class="lDACoc"><<a href="mailto:ben.j.bloomgren@gmail.com">ben.j.bloomgren@gmail.com</a>></span></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe">LL-L "Morphology" 2007.11.13 (01) [E]<br><br></span><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" id="1f8o" class="ArwC7c ckChnd">
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<div><font size="2">I'm not convinced this –s is an American thing.
Don't the British refer to Prince William as Wills? I've never heard anyone in
the US call a William "Wills".<br></font></div>
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<div><font size="2">With certain nicknames and pet names, the s is
common in the US. For the longest time of my childhood, my third cousin, who was
known as Aunt Gail, would call me Binners. It sounds weird to write it that way
now, but that's exactly how she said it. The [E]/[I] (X-Sampa) are just because
she says the lax E that way with everybody. The phrase ten tins is homophonous
to her. Anyway, she would ALWAYS call me Binners from Benners. I can't explain
the -er either unless it's another sort of diminutivizing morpheme or
someting.</font></div>
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From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>><br>Subject: Morphology<br><br>Thanks, Ben, Binners, Binster, Binnerama!<br><br>Hey, how about this for a highfaluting technical term for this particular morpheme -s: "cutesificator", the act of using it being "cutesification"?
<br><br>The verb "cutesify" has the main stress on the first syllable, "cutesification" on the fourth, and "cutesificator" on the the second. Everyone like? Should be sent straight to the <i>
OED</i> people.<br><br>Cheerio!<br>Reinhard/Ron<br><br></span></font></font></div></div>
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