double-take words
Laurence Horn
laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Sat Feb 20 04:57:32 UTC 2010
A headline in today's NYT Sports section read
BEFORE GAMES, LUGER FILED PROTEST
I keep reading this noun as ['lug at r] instead of the intended ['luZ at r]
(rhymes with "hoosier"). And in this particular frame that resulted
in my temporarily misreading the verb as "FIRED". It's not that I'm
into gunplay, but I do have some familiarity with hard-g lugers--from
reading crime novels and mysteries--and rather less familiarity with
velar-softened lugers...
LH
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