siditty, saditty (1963), siddity (1965)

[Laurence Horn]

>No, it sounded clearly like "saditty", and the closed-captioning agreed.
>

With what stress?  If it's antepenult, I certainly can't detect any
huge difference in how "SADitty" and "SADurday" would sound,
especially with a non-rhotic pronunciation of the latter.  But if
it's stressed in another way, there's no possibility of confusion,
even without the support of the closed-captioning.

Larry

>  > -----Original Message-----
>>  From: American Dialect Society
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>>  Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2005 2:04 PM
>>  To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
>>  Subject: Re: siditty, saditty (1963), siddity (1965)
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>>  Poster:       James Smith <jsmithjamessmith at YAHOO.COM>
>>  Subject:      Re: siditty, saditty (1963), siddity (1965)
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>>
>>  Could this be simply 'Saturday Whore'?
>>
>>  --- "Mullins, Bill" <Bill.Mullins at US.ARMY.MIL> wrote:
>>
>>  > I mentioned last week that I saw the movie "Barbershop 2", in which
>>  > Eddie calls his ex-girlfriend a "saditty ho".  My wife's
>>  reaction was
>>  > that "saditty" meant "sadistic", which would have been appropriate
>>  > under the circumstances.
>>  >
>>
>>
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