blowzy

[Jonathan Lighter]

Not me.

JL

On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 3:58 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:

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> On Jan 22, 2013, at 8:08 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
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> > I grew up with both / grisi/ and / grizi /, but never in all my life
> have I
> > heard / lausi /.
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> > JL
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> I don't know if I've heard it either, but I can imagine saying it if what
> I meant was "infested with lice".  Of course I might just say
> "lice/louse-infested" or "infested with lice", but what I don't think I'd
> say is "/lauzi/". If I were reading out loud and came across "lousy" with
> that meaning, I'd probably pronounce it "louse-y", to rhyme with "mousy".
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> LH
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> > On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 1:11 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> >> On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 8:10 AM, Charles C Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu>
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> >>> A reminder:  In many varieties of Southern American English (including
> >> my own and, I would expect, Wilson's) "blouse" and "lousy" are
> pronounced
> >> with a [z].  Unlike > in the [s]-speaking parts of the country(which is
> >> most of them?).
> >>
> >> Wait. What? Of *course* these two words are pronounced with a [z]!
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