NATCH*TOCHES

[Natalie Maynor]

Bethany Dumas wrote:
>
> >Yes.  It's roughly nackadish -- stress on the first syllable.
>
> In my days in s. LA, (late 60s, early 709s) we said something like
> /'naek at D@sh/ [@ = schwa].

That's close to what I meant by nackadish -- the middle syllable is
a schwa.  The last vowel when I say it is more [I] than schwa, but
I'm sure I've heard it with schwa.
   --Natalie Maynor (maynor at ra.msstate.edu)