shkeevy; bubbies; more!

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 8:19 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:

>
> LH, wondering if "shkeevy" represents a generalization of the
> palatalization process we've discussed ages ago wherein "street",
> "stroke", and other /str/-initial words become /Str/ among ethnically
> Italian (and other) inhabitants of the greater New York metro area...
>

And let's recall the purported derivation of "skeevy" from Italian "schifo",
as discussed recently on Language Log:

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1527


--Ben Zimmer

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