"Awesome Blossom"

[ronbutters at AOL.COM]

And with a differerent phonological issue, "... Me a name I call myself / Fa a long long way to run ..."
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------Original Message------
From: Joel S. Berson
Sender: American Dialect Society
To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
ReplyTo: American Dialect Society
Sent: Aug 2, 2007 9:35 PM
Subject: Re: [ADS-L] "Awesome Blossom"

At 8/2/2007 07:38 PM, Alice Faber wrote:
>I had a similar reaction when I first encountered the "Awesome Blossom"
>  fried onion appetizer at one of those interchangeable chain
>restaurants (Ruby Tuesday?).

Did "they" do "Ahsum Blahsum" or "Awsum Blawsum"?  (I couldn't and
wouldn't do either! says a New Yorker by youth.)

Joel

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