Heard on Futurama:
Laurence Horn
laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Fri Jun 17 23:51:54 UTC 2011
At 5:01 PM -0400 6/17/11, Wilson Gray wrote:
>Wang-dang-doodle "penis" (source of wang "id."?) oddly "corrected" to
>_wing_-dang-doodle.
>
>WTF?
If I remember my Intro to Sound Symbolism correctly, a
wing-dang-doodle might suggest a smaller item than the
wang-dang-doodle. Perhaps a wing-ding-doodle would be smaller still.
Of course in the future, who can say?
LH
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