odds & ends from CNN

[Joel S. Berson]

At 2/23/2011 12:46 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>Here's another:  a well-enunciated mention, by a leading anchor, of
>"flamingo dancing."

He had come home soaked late one night and seen them shimmeringly
shimmying pinkly on his lawn.  Instead of elephants.

Joel


>Yeah, I took into account the nasal environment of /I/ in some
>African-American speech.
>
>But he clearly said /g/, not /k/.  I may have mentioned that the question of
>flamenco once came up while a dozen university- and business-type people
>were planning a music festival in 1979.  They were about to release an
>announcement specifying that {flamingo dancing} would be featured.  I
>observed as tactfully as possible that it was {flamenco}.  There was a
>puzzled silence, then an agreement to "check," followed by the confident
>remark that, "I'm pretty sure it's flamingo."
>
>JL
>On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:
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> > At 10:16 AM -0500 2/23/11, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> > >Yesterday an Ohio State Senator said emphatically that "any connection"
> > >between collective bargaining and the state's budget shortfall is "a
> > >complete misnomer."  She used "misnomer" in this way at least twice.
> >  Common
> > >but most annoying,
> > >She also explained that the state employees' unions have "taken many
> > >concessions."  She said that twice also. It means they made them.
> >
> > And, before Jerry Cohen mentions it, blending that with "taken many hits"
> >
> > LH
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