"guttural" = of the gutter

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Mark Mandel wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Alison Murie wrote:
>>
>> From Heidi Beirich of SPLC Hate Watch, writing on AlterNet,
>> concerning a Misissippi pol's membership CCC:
>>
>> "Those actions are not surprising, given the guttural nature of the
>> CCC's racism and anti-Semitism."
>
> Almost a mirror image of "gutteral sounds".

For more on "guttural"/"gutteral", see my 2005 Language Log post, "Guttural
politics":

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002628.html


--Ben Zimmer

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