'sup?

[Laurence Horn]

At 12:50 PM -0400 10/19/04, Dennis R. Preston wrote:
>>Could be; maybe more than one path to get there.
>
>dInIs
>

Seems plausible.  No first/early cites from anyone?  Jon, do you have
anything in your "S" files for 'sup?

Larry

>
>>Dennis R. Preston said:
>>>The reduction of 'What's up' regularly occurs as /tsup/ (adding
>>>another item to the 'tsetse fly' list of onset /ts/ forms in
>>>English). The next stage of reduction compensatorily lengthens /s/
>>>(/ssup/), but the last stage, as one would suspect from the
>>>phonotactics of English, does away with this lengthening and yields
>>>simply /sup/.
>>
>>I'd always assumed that 'sup, definitely with a lengthened /ss/, was
>>a clipping of "whassup", with the /t/ already having assimilated to
>>the following /s/.
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