Flood insurance, anyone?
Laurence Horn
laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Fri Nov 17 14:05:11 UTC 2000
>Our Sen. Schumer (NY) said tonight on NPR that our election laws are
>antidiluvian. Well, I suppose we all feel that way, especially if we sell
>insurance.
>A. Murie
Interesting. I assume he must have pronounced the prefix [&ntay],
since otherwise it would sound exactly like that of "antediluvian".
In the latter case, you can spot a reanalysis in the orthography but
not in the phonetics.
larry
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