"moist" (again)

[Jonathan Lighter]

Yeah, and when you spell it like that too, the problem disappears.

JL

On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:

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> On Dec 12, 2012, at 4:11 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
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> > Maybe it would be better if we all pronounced it like my grandfather and
> > Archie Bunker used to.
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> > JL
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> "Merst", as in "ersters"?
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> LH
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> > On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 3:20 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> >> On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 9:17 AM, Amy West <medievalist at w-sts.com>
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> >>> It "nauseates" them, even when applied to cakes!
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> >> They *almost* have a point.  I would never eat a "cold and clammy"
> >> cake. But I'd find it merely unappetizing. Even then, it would have to
> >> be described to me as a "cold and clammy" (BTW, doesn't that exclude
> >> *most* foodstuffs, modulo oysters, IAC?) cake. "Moist" cake sounds
> >> mouth-watering, not "stomach-turning."
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