accusative cursing

[Laurence Horn]

At 11:22 AM -0400 4/11/07, Laurence Horn wrote:
>At 9:25 PM -0400 4/10/07, James C Stalker wrote:
>>Laurence Horn writes:
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>>>
>>>a.k.a. "nekkid"?
>>>
>>If you wish, but since it isn't a real word, who cares about the spelling?
>
>Not a real word?  "nekkid" has 822,000 raw google hits.  That doesn't
>necessarily make it a real word, but it does seem to suggest it's a
>real semi-standardized variant of one (cf. "purty", "nucular").  We
>need the double -k- in "nekkid" (rather than spelling it "nekid") to
>denote ['nEkId] rather than either ['nE(y)kId]

Oops.  Of course I meant ['ne(y)kId] here   --LH

>(= the standard
>pronunciation of "naked") or ['nIkId] (the standard pronounciation of
>"knee-kid").
>
>LH
>
>>In part, I josh, but not wholly.  Are there conventional spellings for
>>conventionally unacceptable pronunciations in unacceptable dialects, except
>>maybe in DARE?  Why do we need the double k?  As with Wilson, musings rather
>>than real questions.
>>
>>JCS
>>
>>
>>
>>James C. Stalker
>>Department of English
>>Michigan State University
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