"Suffering doughnuts!"

[Thom Harrison]

Yes.  Sylvester has a lisp which makes s, s, and sh come out as nearly the
same sound, somewhere between s and th.  His pronunciation of his own name
produces the same effect.  All those sibilants.

Thom



At 01:03 PM 10/9/01 -0400, you wrote:
>Regarding "Suffering succotash!", as the watchword of Sylvester the
>Cat.  Gerald Cohen asks "is there any justification for succotash
>appearing in this exclamation?"
>
>My recollection is that Sylvester has a particularly liquid way of
>speaking these words that suggests that he utters them in a spray of
>spit -- not rendered visually, though.  "Suffering" is not an uncommon
>word in such an exclamation, and the first and last sounds
>of "succotash" also lend themselves to a moist pronunciation.
>
>GAT
>
>George A. Thompson
>Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern
>Univ. Pr., 1998.
>
Thom Harrison
Macon State College