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[ronbutters at AOL.COM]

Yes, and the weeney-ding-diddle is surely microscopic.

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On Jun 17, 2011, at 7:51 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU> wrote:

> 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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