mediots and preglimony

[victor steinbok]

The reason for the existence of "preglimony" is the general confusion
between alimony and child support--two very different legal and economic
vehicles. Although "preglimony" incorporates "alimony" in its morphology,
the actual concept functions more like child support. But being honest
about it does not lead to a catchy portmantaeu.

VS-)

On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 12:08 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:

> 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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