twat+oogle

[Wilson Gray]

I've never heard it and, fortunately, never used it, either. As a
child, I would "read" words that I didn't know by breaking them apart
into pieces that I could, to a certain extent, understand. As a
consequence, I spent much time vaguely wondering what
"[[sun][dries]]" were. Neither other kids nor even adults seemed to
know.

-Wilson

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>Seems to me that "sundries" are frequently advertised on the windows
>of general stores in old westerns.
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>At any rate, I am very familiar with the term, even if I've never
>heard it or used it.
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>JL
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>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.
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>FWIW, in my youth, neighborhood drugstores offered "sundries" for
>sale. Otherwise, I've neither seen nor heard "sundry" used in the
>plural.
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>Further FWIW, Eric P. Hamp once proposed an etymology of "twat" in
>which he related it to the "thwait" in names like "Crossthwaite."
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>-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.
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