aste(r)perious

[Arnold M. Zwicky]

On Sep 4, 2004, at 9:30 PM, i wrote:

>
> 2.  the dictionaries to hand were, unsurprisingly, not helpful.  so i
> went to google, which had no web or newsgroup hits, but did suggest i
> might have meant "asterperious" (a word that would surface as
> "asteperious" in a non-rhotic dialect (such as that presumably spoken
> by the north carolinan

ok, "carolinian"

> african american Blanche).

ok, "african american Blanche))."  that'll teach me to put parens
inside parens.

arnold