phat/fat, phuque&suque

[Laurence Horn]

At 2:03 PM -0400 10/17/00, RonButters at AOL.COM wrote:
>Dennis knows me well enough to know that I adore foreignness and (when it
>comes to alternative spellings) worship at the feat of pretentiousness. I
>have seen (and delighted in) both PHUQUE and SUQUE--in cartoons, where the
>nonce spellings were intended to convey the pretentiousness of the utterers.
>
>And as for FAT/PHAT--close to the kind example of what I was trying to find.
>And along similar lines, NOW I also recall that there were attempts (not very
>successful) at breaking GEY 'homosexual' away from GAY 'merry; decadent'.
>
Speaking of which, cf. QUEAN vs. QUEEN.

larry