Race/racism and the late Prof. Frederic G. Cassidy

[Tom Zurinskas]

The short "oo" sound is very confounded in English tradspel. There is no
consistent way to spell it.   In truespel phonetics I go with ~oo to
represent the short oo sound.  Some say that ~oo should spell the long oo
sound, but my research in running text shows that there are more instances
of short oo than long oo.

Tom Z

Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL4+
See truespel.com and the 4 truespel books at authorhouse.com.





>From: Charles Doyle <cdoyle at UGA.EDU>
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>Subject: Re: Race/racism and the late Prof. Frederic G. Cassidy
>Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2006 18:16:51 -0500
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>Wilson's mention of Shug Otis reminds me of how, last year while teaching
>_The Color Purple_, I had such a struggle discouraging the students from
>pronouncing the character Shug's name so as to rhyme it with "hug."  But
>then, there really isn't a good way to represent the nickname or common
>(Southern?) epithet clipped from "sugar" orthographically.
>
>--Charlie
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> >Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2006 14:59:11 -0500
> >From: Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
> >Subject: Re: Race/racism and the late Prof. Frederic G. Cassidy
>
> >
> >sThanks, guys. A really weird aspect of the American variety of racism is
>that *anyone* can become black merely by saying, "I'm black," and be
>believed, regardless of what he looks like. A case in point is the late,
>great, rhythm-&-blues musician and bandleader, Johnny Otis, born to
>Greek-American parents as Yannis Veliotis, who lived nearly his entire
>life, from the 'teens on, as a black man. Those who are fans of obscure
>jazz musicians may be aware of his son, the guitarist, Johnny, Jr., better
>known as "Shug" Otis, though I can remember when he was still an infant
>nicknamed "Sugar Boy."
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