'mo = homo

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Sat Mar 13 00:42:22 UTC 2004


>On Fri, 5 Mar 2004 RonButters at AOL.COM wrote:
>
>>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.
>
>Which reminds me - I still want to know how 'za is pronounced.
>
>Bethany

I'm pretty sure it rhymes with "pa" or "fa" [a long long way to go].
I suppose the only other option would be to rhyme it with "duh", but
I think the spelling pronunciation prevails.

larry



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