twat+oogle

[Jonathan Lighter]

Seems to me that "sundries" are frequently advertised on the windows of general stores in old westerns.

At any rate, I am very familiar with the term, even if I've never heard it or used it.

JL

Wilson Gray <wilson.gray at RCN.COM> wrote:
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Yes, I mean [ogl]. Unfortunately, it's been decades I was last in
Salt Lake City and I'll probably never go there, again. So, I'll
probably never see the mimicry. However, the mere thought of the
various and sundry ways in which the good judge could be mimicked or
parodied is worth a laugh all by itself.

FWIW, in my youth, neighborhood drugstores offered "sundries" for
sale. Otherwise, I've neither seen nor heard "sundry" used in the
plural.

Further FWIW, Eric P. Hamp once proposed an etymology of "twat" in
which he related it to the "thwait" in names like "Crossthwaite."

-Wilson Gray

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>From: neil
>> on 16/3/05 2:33 pm, Wilson Gray at wilson.gray at RCN.COM wrote:
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>>>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.
>
>By "ohgle", do you all mean [ogl]? It's an ambiguous spelling to me.
>
>For my part, i use [ogl], and when i've heard [agl] i've always assumed
>it was a spelling pronunciation--who knew? (I've never, as far as i
>remember, heard [ugl].)
>
>And while i've got you, i'll mention that Jimmy Chunga, one of the
>morning DJs on Salt Lake City's KENZ, does an absolutely *wonderful*
>(and not entirely parodic) mimic of Judge Joe Brown.
>
>--
>David Bowie http://pmpkn.net/lx
> Jeanne's Two Laws of Chocolate: If there is no chocolate in the
> house, there is too little; some must be purchased. If there is
> chocolate in the house, there is too much; it must be consumed.


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