Heard on Springer: _baby daddy_, etc. (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Laurence Horn]

At 2:19 PM -0500 4/22/11, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC wrote:
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>I heard on one of the Judges lately a woman refer to a "nasty daddy",
>which was explained to the judge to be a somewhat older man who is
>hitting on girls too young for his self.  Strong connotation of
>creepiness.

I was going to suggest that a Splenda daddy might be used for someone
who was masquerading  as a sugar daddy but before posting I thought
of checking on urbandictionary and sure enough:

'A man who strives to be a Sugar Daddy but just doesn't have the
funds to pull it off.'
'A man who is willing to be a sugar daddy, but has a serious lack of funds.'

And various sites offer "Splenda Daddy" T-shirts and other
paraphernalia, but without a gloss.

LH



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>>  Twenty-ish white woman, Mary, of ordinary Northern speech, to her
>>  sister, Jane, who is marrying Mary;s former boyfriend:
>>
>>  "It's in the code! Part of the family code! You don't mess with a
>>  sister's boyfriend *or* her _baby daddy_! How's my son going to feel,
>>  when he's old enough to know that his father is married to his _aunt
>>  ('ahnt')_?!"
>>
>>  Twenty-ish white male of ordinary Northern speech:
>>
>>  "I was living in the house of my _aunt ('ant')_.
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>>  FWIW, IME, the distribution of [ant] vs. [Ant] among white speakers
>>  and among black speakers seems to be random. The larger difference,
>>  IMO. is that BE-speakers, IME, are more likely to use the diminutive
>>  "auntie" [an.ti] vs. [An.ti] (> [e(I}n.ti]). I mark the syllable
>>  boundary because the pronunciation is usually "ON-tee," vs. "AN-tee"
>>  (> "ANE-tee).
>>
>>  Late-twenty-ish, black male of ordinary, Northern-BE speech:
>>
>>  "I'm a playa! I juggles! I juggles many women! I'm a _jugular_!" (Very
>>  likely a hypercorrection, IMO.)
>>
>>  Twenty-ish, urban-Southern BE-speaker from Montgomery, AL:
>>
>>  "My gi[r]lfriend..."
>>
>>  with a really *serious* [r], like "gurrrfrin." My father, a
>>  rural-Southern BE-speaker from the greater-Birmingham area who never
>>  met a pre-consonantal ahra that he couldn't delete, must be spinning
>>  in his grave!
>>
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>>  to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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