mediots and preglimony

[Laurence Horn]

On Jul 17, 2012, at 11:51 AM, Arnold Zwicky wrote:

> on my blog:
> http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2012/07/17/more-dubious-portmanteaus/
>
Thanks.  The only thing that could save "preglimony" would be an antepenultimate stress, to rhyme with "Bimini" and "simony".  Not to mention "chiminey". And "womeny".  But that pronunciation would render it even more opaque.

LH

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