"go bazooka"

[Jonathan Lighter]

Fox News invariably refers to Berkley that way (city and campus).

  HDAS: 1976 (earlier exx. undoubtedly now findable).

  JL

Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU> wrote:
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At 2:29 PM -0500 2/25/08, Mark Mandel wrote:
>"Go berserk" is often pronounced /b@'z at rk/. Google has about *246,000* hits
>for "bezerk".

...whence also the popular mot in the 60's referring to "Beserkley"
(California).

> I'd say that "go bazooka" is no more and no less than an
>eggcorn for "go berserk".
>
>Jessy wrote
>
>I'd add "go berserk" to the list; certainly it was my first guess
>> for influence on phonological grounds.
>>
>
>On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 10:40 AM, Dennis Preston
wrote:
>
>> Even likelier in those areas (or for those individuals) who have [z]
>> rather than [s] in 'berserk.'
>>
>> dInIs
>>
>> PS: Ooop! Forgot to indicate that the AE standard (i.e., my speech)
>> is with [s]. I believe r-less BritSpeak has [z].
>>
>
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>Mark Mandel
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