Southern consonant cluster collapse

[Jonathan Lighter]

Old news (as when "shrimp" becomes "srimp") but timely because the latest
ricin arrestee is a Mississippian named {Dutschke}.

He and everybody on CNN says "Dusky."

JL

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"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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