Gorram and Frack

Jim Parish jparish at SIUE.EDU
Mon Jan 17 18:45:49 UTC 2005


I wrote:
> and from the TV series "Farscape", [...]
>   "tralk" (roughly meaning "slut").

Mark Mandel asked:
> Pronounced how? Rhyming with "chalk" /t r O k/? With "calque"
> /t r ae l k/)? The web site you cite doesn't give pronunciations, which
> seems strange when talking about a TV show.

"Tralk" rhymes with "calque".

Jim Parish



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