Heard on the Today show: "whuppin'"

[Wilson Gray]

W:pedia  says that he was born in NYC, reared in CT, went to Ohio
University, and worked in Huntington, WV, for about a year.

-Wilson

On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 10:30 AM, David Bergdahl <dlbrgdhl at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Matt went to school here in Athens which is App-a-l*atch*-cha so maybe he
> picked it up here!
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> 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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>> All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
>> come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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-Mark Twain

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