Loogie (1985)
Benjamin Zimmer
bgzimmer at BABEL.LING.UPENN.EDU
Wed Jul 5 16:55:05 UTC 2006
On 7/5/06, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC <Bill.Mullins at us.army.mil> wrote:
>
> > I've heard "hack a loogie" used as well. My elementary
> > German teacher (a young grad student at UMass) would use that
> > phrase when instructing us how to pronounce the final "ch"
> > sound. (He was an excellent teacher, by the way.)
>
> And "hock a louie/loogie". Thus morphing into a "hocker", as in "don't
> step on that hocker".
"Hock" and "hawk" are, of course, homonymous for speakers with the
cot/caught merger.
More here:
http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/english/329/hock/
--Ben Zimmer
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