lickety-split/-quick (was Re: unscripted speech)

[Laurence Horn]

>I wonder if this is this related to a self-correction that I noticed
>in Ray Nagin's rant on Air America. He would say "lickety-" and then
>there'd be a slight pause and then say "quick" when I was expecting
>"split".
>
>I apologize if this has already been mentioned. I've had to dump some
>digests unread.
>
>---Amy West

Yes, that's where this thread began.

L

>>
>>Date:    Tue, 6 Sep 2005 10:35:25 -0400
>>From:    George Thompson <george.thompson at NYU.EDU>
>>Subject: Re: unscripted speech
>>
>>I very vaguely remember a dirty joke, the point of which was "lickety-
>>split" = "cunnilingus".  If heard, then from my college years, early
>>60s; if read, then probably in one of Gershom Legman's books.
>>
>>GAT
>>
>>George A. Thompson
>>Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern
>>Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much lately.