sammich

[Dennis R. Preston]

Phony phonetics in riddle-puns (e.g., the Parade magazine's last
page, that stuff you don't read folded into your Sunday paper) piss
me off. I'm always getting the dang things wrong because they either
stretch (or spelling-pronounce) some of their answers (like Larry's
beach answer).

dInIs





>At 9:39 AM -0500 1/21/05, Barnhart wrote:
>>American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> on Friday, January 21,
>>2005 at 9:02 AM -0500 wrote:
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>>>For speakers for whom the velar wins out, "sangwich' emerges; for us
>>>labial champions, it's 'samwich,' surely the input for the next stage
>>>'sammich,' that last clearly the pronunciation of the ignernt.
>>
>>But what about ignernts who say "sanwich"?  Mine is clearly not labial.
>>
>Besides which, if we go with dInIs, we have to give up the old riddle--
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>"Why do you never go hungry at the beach"
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>Because of all the san(d)-which-is there.
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>[#Because of all the sam(w)iches there.]
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>larry


--
Dennis R. Preston
University Distinguished Professor
Department of Linguistics and Germanic, Slavic,
        Asian and African Languages
Wells Hall A-740
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824-1027 USA
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