blowzy

[Joel S. Berson]

Larry and I must have gone to the same elementary school.  (In an
earlier message I said I might say "lausi" in the same circumstances
-- when meaning "infested with lice".)

Joel

At 1/22/2013 04:56 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>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 /.
> > >
> > > JL
> >
> > 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".
> >
> > LH
> > >
> > > 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>
> > wrote:
> > >>> 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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