Heard on the Today show: "whuppin'"

[Laurence Horn]

At 11:06 AM -0400 10/28/08, Mark Mandel wrote:
>Veering off, what does the proverb mean?
>
>Mark Mandel

I suspect it offers a counterbalance to "Ladies first", "Pearls
before swine", and others in that family.

LH

>
>
>On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 11:04 AM, Charles Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu> wrote:
>
>>  Yes, definitely a lexified "nonstandard" pronunciation (cf. "heist," etc.).
>>   The pronunciation more strictly represented by the spelling "whipping"--and
>>  perhaps the speling itself--would be inappropriate in certain situations.
>>
>>  By analogy: The proverb "Bros before hos" (sp?) cannot reasonably be
>>  written (much less pronounced) as "Brothers before whores"--by anybody!
>>
>>  --Charlie
>>
>
>------------------------------------------------------------
>The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org