Link to NY City Council "Bitch & Ho" Resolution

[Laurence Horn]

At 11:38 PM -0400 8/8/07, James Harbeck wrote:
>>Does anyone else recall when "bitch and moan" was "piss and moan"? Or
>>was the latter merely a local St. Louis usage?
>
>I'm actually more used to "pissing and moaning" than "bitching and
>moaning", though more from my Albertan youth -- I really don't hear
>either much around Toronto lately.
>
I recall a phonetics professor in my undergraduate days referring to
the importance of the analysis of "stretch and piss", but he was
apparently just mixing his suprasegmentals.

LH

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