More on "moist"

[Jonathan Lighter]

Doesn't qualify because it's not one word, just a title that happens to
contain two proper nouns, both of which are routinely spelled without the
asterisks.

Though _M*A*S*H_ obviously can be spelled as _MASH_, that isn't _M*A*S*H_.
It's something very different: a misspelling of the movie entitled _MASH_.

JL


 On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 5:23 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

> ---------------------- Information from the mail header
> -----------------------
> Sender:       American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> Poster:       "Joel S. Berson" <Berson at ATT.NET>
> Subject:      Re: More on "moist"
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> At 8/9/2009 04:53 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> >There was, however, a TV series called _M*A*S*H_, the only word in English
> >that requires asterisks in its standard orthography.
>
> Are we forgetting _The Education of H * Y * M * A * N K * A * P * L * A *
> N_?
>
> Or does that not qualify because there are spaces between its teeth?
>
> Joel
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org
>

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