The wiener and its warming (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Jonathan Lighter]

But (Klaus) Barbie is stressed on his final syllable.

There is no phonetic identity in the U.S. (or my idiolectal slice of
it) between Klaus Barbie, Mattel's Barbie, and an English bobby.



JL

On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 6:39 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
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> On Oct 31, 2011, at 4:39 PM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC wrote:
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>>>> As long as you pronounce it "BAA-bie" /'bae:bi/, to distinguish it
>> clearly
>>> from the doll, the copper, and the Nazi.
>>>>
>>>> LH
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>>>
>>> Barbie is the only one of those I got.
>>>
>> The doll is Mattel's Barbie.
>>
>> Dunno the copper.
>>
>> The Nazi is Klaus Barbie.
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> And the copper is the British policeman, a.k.a. "bobby".  A bit of a stretch, to be sure.
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