Spelling errors as a reflection of non-standard speech

[Page Stephens]

My friend Ken Shipley who is an old hillbilly like I am but now lives today
in Cleveland, Ohio was once puzzled by a spray painted message on the side
of a building which read "Sarah is a hoe."

For the life of him he couldn't figure why anyone would like to call a
person an agricultural implement until it dawned on him what the writer was
trying to say.

Page Stephens

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From: "Laurence Horn" <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
To: <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
Sent: Friday, July 23, 2004 4:15 PM
Subject: Re: Spelling errors as a reflection of non-standard speech


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> At 1:06 PM -0700 7/23/04, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> >Isn't nonstandard "chimbley" relevant here?
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> >JL
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> and besides these more dramatic cases (chimbley, humble, chambre)
> involving a stop between nasal and liquid, there are the subtler ones
> in /m+s/, e.g. the widely attested "hampster"
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> larry
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