Phonetically correct sports
Baker, John
JMB at STRADLEY.COM
Thu Mar 15 14:22:32 UTC 2007
And what's wrong with "Polo"?
John Baker
-----Original Message-----
From: American Dialect Society [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf
Of Charles Doyle
Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2007 8:58 AM
To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: Phonetically correct sports
What does "correct phonetically spelled" MEAN?? My pronunciation of
"golf" has no [l]. Does that make the word incorrect phonetically
spelled? Correct unphonetically spelled? Correct phonetically
misspelled?
--Charlie
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---- Original message ----
>Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 09:27:09 -0000
>From: Michael Quinion <wordseditor at WORLDWIDEWORDS.ORG>
>Subject: Phonetically correct sports
>
>A subscriber e-mailed me as follows: "I was recently with some friends
at a trivia evening. One question was 'What is the only correct
phonetically spelled sport?' It turned out to be 'Golf'".
>--
>Michael Quinion
>Editor, World Wide Words
>E-mail: wordseditor at worldwidewords.org
>Web: http://www.worldwidewords.org
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