A nice Southernism . . .

[Arnold M. Zwicky]

On Sep 3, 2008, at 7:19 AM, Doug Harris wrote:

> That would be 'finny', er, funny, if it weren't so sad.
> doug
>
> --------
> One student included in her introduction the following clause:
> "Once I was
> old enough to fin for myself . . . ."  A Southern belle just
> swimming along
> in the school!

entertaining, but just ear spelling (raising of [E] before [n], final
t-deletion), probably from someone who had rarely seen the word in
print.

arnold

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