somewhat odd headline

[Tom Zurinskas]

AFter looking up "hysteron-proteron", I think they got it backasswards,  Interestingly, "prot" is pronounced ~praat.


Tom Zurinskas, Conn 20 yrs, Tenn 3, NJ 33, now Fl 9.
See how English spelling links to sounds at http://justpaste.it/ayk





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> At 10/20/2011 10:46 AM, Jesse Sheidlower wrote:
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> >We should celebrate this. It's not very often one gets to use the term
> >"hysteron-proteron", after all.
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> Is there a database? (I know I've seen others in the wild, but I
> didn't know that they were so interesting as to have a term in
> Rhetoric from the 1500s.) It would make amusing reading.
>
> Joel
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