Heard on The Judges: "compromise"

[Wilson Gray]

Yes, I've misread "misled" as "MAYZ-ld," too. I couldn't make hide nor
 hair out of the sentence.

-Wilson
–––
All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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-Mark Twain



On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 11:20 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
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> Anymore, when we notice a spelling pronunciation of this type (I
> guess it's in the "MAYZ-l'd" for _misled_ category) we should be
> reassured that folks are still reading...
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> LH
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> At 10:03 AM -0500 12/16/08, Wilson Gray wrote:
>>Judge Penny [pInI], forty-four-year-old, black female speaker from Georgia:
>>
>>"Do you know what a marriage [m&:G] is [iIz]?
>>
>>Forty-four-year-old, Latino female college graduate married to a white
>>aerospace engineer:
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>>"Yes. It's two people compromising "com PROMising" ["kam 'pram at sIN]."
>>
>>
>>I've never heard this pronunciation before. Which is not to say that,
>>at one time, I wouldn't have used it, myself. It's only that, as fate
>>would have it, I never had occasion to speak this word during the time
>>when I would have said, "com PROMising."
>>
>>-Wilson
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>>All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
>>come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
>>-----
>>-Mark Twain
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