"_Auroch_, aurochs"?!

[Wilson Gray]

There's a brief reference to the Latin word for "aurochs," _urus_. The
author gives the *English* pronunciation of this word as [ju at r@s].
Really? Not just [ju:r at s] or even simply [jur at s]? The syllable is
open.

-Wilson

On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 4:28 PM, Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I wonder if "point-blank" was inspired by "dead on!" or "right on!"
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> As for "auroch," what's next? "Hydroc"? "file boc"?
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> Inglish am a-comin'!
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> (Disclaimer: That was Inglish, not AAVE.)
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> JL
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> On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 4:04 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> According to the article below, in *English* English, no less,
>> _aurochs_ is now a plural. This shift may not be news to most others,
>> but, to me ... <sob!> I'm sorry. I can't go on.
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>> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/7011035/Giant-cattle-to-be-bred=
> -back-from-extinction.html
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>> Heard on The Judges:
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>> Early-twenty-ish black male speaker:
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>> "Point-blank!" =3D Precisely!
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>> Late-twenty-ish black male speaker uses, of a woman, _turnout_, to
>> mean "outrageous flirt." He also, speaking of the same woman,
>> sneeringly used "her _little_ boody" as part of his derisive
>> description.
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>> -Wilson
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>> All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"=96=96a strange complaint t=
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>> come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
>> =96Mark Twain
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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"––a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
–Mark Twain

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