Heard on the Today show: "whuppin'"

[David Bergdahl]

Matt went to school here in Athens which is App-a-l*atch*-cha so maybe he
picked it up here!
:-)


On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 9:27 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Matt Lauer, speaking of how to react to a bully:
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> " ... Give him a _whuppin'_! ..."
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> What struck me is that Lauer spoke _whuppin'_ as though that was the
> standard pronunciation in his dialect, when we know that it isn't. No
> air quotes, special intonation, facial expression, etc.
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> Is this becoming or has it become a hip, slang-pronunciation among sE
> speakers?
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> -Wilson
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