Looking for a good man-word
Michael H Covarrubias
mcovarru at PURDUE.EDU
Thu Mar 22 00:24:10 UTC 2007
Quoting Arnold M. Zwicky
> On Mar 21, 2007, at 4:16 PM, Michael H Covarrubias wrote:
>
> > man date: a planned outing - or perhaps an edict of "man law"
>
> already on mark's list, as "man-date". some of the others have
> hyphenated, solid, or separated versions.
Drrp! How did I miss this? I was looking for it specifically, knowing that it
was so common he must have listed it. Or perhaps I should claim that I was
intending to suggest the second meaning: "an edict of 'man law'" -- But I
wasn't.
> i see this one as "mangina" most of the time.
I've seen that too. I used the hyphen in an unnecessary attempt to split the
orthography and avoid the possible reading of the word as "mang-(g)eena" with
the velar assimilation of the nasal.
Ha. I forget who my audience is.
mhc
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
English Language & Linguistics
Purdue University
mcovarru at purdue.edu
web.ics.purdue.edu/~mcovarru
<http://wishydig.blogspot.com>
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org
More information about the Ads-l
mailing list