damyankee

William H. Smith wh5mith at ATL.MINDSPRING.COM
Fri Oct 8 03:58:01 UTC 1999


For me, "damn yankee" follows the NP stress rule (damYANkee), not the
compound stress rule (DAMyankee).  In any case, I should not have used the
expletive before this erudite audience, since, as all of y'all (that means
every damn one of y'all) know, it's redundant.
Bill (who is r-full and is not a double modaler, although his wife isn't and is)



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