"congressional meat-puppet"..........! (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Tom Zurinskas]

Actually yes, truespel is ~jist for tradspel "gist".  Oops.  And I never even thought twice about it.

There are more google hits for "jist" than "gist" but maybe it's a word in another language.  Or could it be phonetics-creep.  Next thing you know "jeneral" for "general" (actually 959k google hits compared to 2.8M for "general".

According to the 5k most used words in the Collins Cobuild database for words beginning with "g" there are about eleven times more word hits in print having hard "g" than there are for soft "g".  The most common word by far with soft "g" is "general".  For words beginning with the ~j sound, three times as many start with letter "j" as letter "g".


Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL7+
see truespel.com phonetic spelling


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>> I think from the word puppet alone we get the jist.
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>> Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL5+
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