twat+oogle

[Laurence Horn]

At 2:39 PM +0000 3/16/05, neil wrote:
>on 16/3/05 2:33 pm, Wilson Gray at wilson.gray at RCN.COM wrote:
>
>  > How do you feel about "oggle"? This is the way that I've heard it
>>  pronounced most often, And then there's "ohgle," which is the way
>>  that I pronounce "ogle" in my mind when I read it. I've never once
>>  had occasion to speak this word aloud. AFAIK, it's not used in any
>  > spoken register of BE.
>
>'ohgle' would be my pronunciation, also; but from now on I'll be oogling -
>with its echoes of goo-goo eyes.
>
>--Neil Crawford

I've always said "ohgle" for "ogle" too, and was not previously aware
of "oogle".  Perhaps future generations will assume that "oogling" is
a special kind of googling performed when you're checking someone out
and don't have a computer on you.

larry