Westconsin

[Herb Stahlke]

Having gone to high school and junior college in East Conson, I can
confirm that West Conson does not exist.

Herb

On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 3:05 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> For an embarrassingly long time, I was under the impression that my
> father had attended the University of _West Conson_, even after I had
> come to know that there was a state named "Wisconsin." Sometimes, I'm
> slow to make connections and corrections.
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> On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 1:25 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
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>> At 1:14 PM -0400 4/20/10, Herb Stahlke wrote:
>>>One of my adult literacy learners today spelled that The Badger State
>>>as "Westconsin."  I thought it was a possible eggcorn, and in her case
>>>I think it was, but I got 175k raw ghits on it, most of which referred
>>>to businesses in western Wisconsin where it seems to be a conscious
>>>blend to name the region.
>>>
>>>Herb
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>> Also some hits (all self-conscious coinages, I suspect) for "Eastconsin".
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>> Of course people in and around the states typically destress the
>> first syllable drastically and even resyllabify (w@ SKAN s at n), which
>> would make any such reanalysis (to "Westconsin") all the more
>> unlikely in situ.
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>> LH
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