fudg(s)icle

[vida morkunas]

a Canadian view:

we said fudge-sickle in Montreal, I hear fudge-ickle here in Vancouver

cheers --

Vida.
vidamorkunas at telus.net



-----Original Message-----
From: American Dialect Society [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU]On Behalf
Of Laurence Horn
Sent: July 11, 2003 9:02 PM
To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: Re: fudg(s)icle


At 10:21 AM -0400 7/11/03, Frank Abate wrote:
>
>But they DO say "jimmies" in SE Mass for the stuff you sprinkle on or dip
>ice cream into, as in the Boston area.  They also say "fudg-icle" for the
TM
>ice-cream-like product, with no "s", and think you weird if you say
>"fudgsicle", even though it is spelled that way right on the wrapper, and
>the rest of the country says it as it is spelled.

It's often pronounced "fudgicle" in the New York area--and even in
south-central Connecticut, if not by Frank!

larry