ADS-L Digest - 15 Dec 2008 to 16 Dec 2008 (#2008-351)

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In a message dated 12/17/2008 12:03:38 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
LISTSERV at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU writes:
 
 
Judge Penny [pInI], forty-four-year-old, black female speaker from  Georgi=
a:

"Do you know what a marriage [m&:G] is  [iIz]?

Forty-four-year-old, Latino female college graduate married to a  white
aerospace engineer:

"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."
 
 

Could she  have meant "co-promising"?  Pronounced CO-PROM-is-ing.    That  
would make sense, and a wedding (if not the entire marriage) is, after all, an  
exchange of mutual promises.  
 
Rosemarie

None are so poor that they have nothing  to give … and none are so rich that 
they have nothing to receive. 




JP

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