Re: 'mo = homo

[RonButters at AOL.COM]

In a message dated 3/5/04 1:10:15 AM, zwicky at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU writes:


> from the march 2004 issue of GENRE, the "advice + consent" column by
> john a. vlahides, p. 78 (answer to a letter from a gay guy):
> 
>    Discovering that you're gay may initially seem like a curse.  But
> hang in there, keep on asking the hard questions, and you may find that
> turning out a 'mo is the best thing that ever happened to you.
> 
> 'mo = homo was new to me.  it's an example (relatively rare, but not
> unattested) of a word clipped down to its unstressed final syllable.
> anyone have other attestations for 'mo?
> 
> arnold (zwicky at csli.stanford.edu)
> 

It SOUNDS like something I've heard before, but maybe I'm getting it confused 
with 'za = pizza, which has certainly been around for a while. Not that there 
is much of a semantic connection between 'mo and 'za.