gutteral 'of the gutter'

[Arnold M. Zwicky]

On May 17, 2008, at 8:27 AM, i wrote:

> ... now this morning on
> NPR's Morning Edition Saturday, an occurrence of "downright
> gutteral" (in the relevant sense) from Harold Ford, chairman of the
> Democratic Leadership Council.

my transcription:

I ran for office, for Senate in Tennessee, and faced an onslaught of
really obnoxious, objectionable, and downright gutteral kind of ads,
from outside organizations and outside groups.

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