Bad Taste Breakthrough! PLUS New Phoneme! (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Jonathan Lighter]

"Bippy" has too many sounds to be a phoneme. It's a lexeme, and they've
always been a dime a dozen.

JL

On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 10:36 AM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC <
Bill.Mullins at us.army.mil> wrote:

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> > Pronounced the same as _S#*!_ ?
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> > No kidding, if people do start saying (*Beep!*) to euphemize certain
> > monosyllables, it will have become a phoneme of English.
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> As did "bippy" -- "you bet your sweet bippy", from Laugh-In, late 1960s.
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> > A very bizarre one, but a phoneme nonetheless.
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