hearst

[Tom Zurinskas]

I have a friend that always puts an ending "t" on "ludicrous."  LOU-di-crust.  ~luedikrust.   hope no one ever corrects her.


Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL7+
see truespel.com phonetic spelling





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> Poster: Charles C Doyle
> Subject: Re: hearst
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> Like "twice" as [twaIst]: Isn't that how everybody says it?
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> --Charlie
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> Well of course no pun was intended. It is remarkable that a news reporter would make such a mistake, but confusion about what words have final clusters in /s/ and what words just have final /s/ alone is so common in American dialects as to be totally unremarkable.
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> On Oct 7, 2010, at 10:17 AM, Laurence Horn wrote:
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> > At 10:01 AM -0400 10/7/10, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> >> CNN's Kyra Phillips was reporting a moment ago on ceremonies surrounding the
> >> return of the casket of a dead soldier from Afghanistan. She explained that
> >> the casket "is about to be placed on the hearst."
> >>
> >> Of course I assumed that the excrescent T was just a slip (after all,
> >> _Citizen Kane_ was on TCM last night!). But then she said it again very
> >> clearly: / hrst /. And again.
> >>
> >>
> >> JL
> >
> > Wonder if there was interference from _Citizen Hearst_, an excellent
> > biography of the latter by Swanberg. Presumably no pun was actually
> > intended.
> >
> > LH
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