Fwd: Popsicle

Joel S. Berson Berson at ATT.NET
Tue Apr 6 16:10:26 UTC 2010


At 4/6/2010 11:38 AM, nwhitman at ameritech.net wrote:
>This message doesn't seem to have gotten through, so I'm resenting it.

In anger that it didn't get through the first time?  :-)  Assuming
this was accidental (and perhaps not giving Neal due credit!), is
there a linguistic term for it?

Joel


>From: "nwhitman at ameritech.net" <nwhitman at ameritech.net>
>Date: April 5, 2010 3:16:13 PM EDT
>To: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
>Subject: Re: Popsicle
>
>
> From "The Cartridge Family," season 9, episode 5 of The Simpsons:
>Milhouse: You said there'd be fudgicles, Bart. Where's the fudgicles?
>Bart: First, it's fudgesicle. And I know they're up here.

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