Horne

[Wilson Gray]

I'm flattered! Thank you, Ben! And don't forget my PHATT from 1950! ;-)

-Wilson

On Feb 3, 2008 9:31 AM, Benjamin Zimmer <bgzimmer at babel.ling.upenn.edu> wrote:
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> On Feb 3, 2008 3:19 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > But he's finally realized that mere memory is basically worthless to
> > the pros.:-) Memory is only for fee-U-N, to use another of my mother's
> > old slang phrases. (I wonder why that isn't "F-U-fun," like the later
> > "T-I-'tis." Of course, "tee-I-S" would be non-distinct from "T-I-S.")
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> In your case "mere" memory is hardly worthless, Wilson! On Language
> Log and elsewhere I've had occasion to cite your recollections on "How
> ADJ is that!", " It's X's world, we just live in it", "good lookin'
> out", and other hard-to-track colloquialisms.
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> > My North-Carolina relatives seriously use "JAY pan" for "Japan" and I
> > would never have thought that anyone would use that pronunciation
> > except as a joke.
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> Ah yes, as in the "JAYpan fan" of "Jackson" fame...
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