"Toenailed": of nails

[Laurence Horn]

At 3:08 PM -0500 1/22/11, Wilson Gray wrote:
>from Storm Stories
>
>Spoken by a fifty-ish, white female survivor of the Great Malibu
>Canyon Mudslide:
>
>"I saw that two nails had been _toenailed_ into the wood [of a 2x4.]"
>
>Does anyone know what the verb _tailnail_ might mean, just off the top
>of his head?
>

No, but I know a nice example of regressive assimilation when i see one!

LH

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