The lonely shepherd

[Laurence Horn]

On Jun 5, 2013, at 11:47 PM, Neal Whitman wrote:

> In this article about ChicagoO'Hare Airport employing goats to graze on
> the runways to keep them free of grass and weeds, there's this sentence:
>
> The herd of 25 goats will be transported to O'Hare from the nearby
> suburb of Barrington Hills in about a month, along with a shepherd who
> will oversee them ....
> http://inhabitat.com/chicagos-ohare-airport-hires-goat-herd-to-graze-along-runways/
>
> What, not a goatherd?
>
> Neal

Those goatherds get too lonely.

LH
>
> On 6/5/2013 3:44 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
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>> Subject:      Re: Pronunciation of "malware"
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>> At 6/4/2013 08:40 PM, Charles C Doyle wrote:
>>> This afternoon a local TV newscaster (Atlanta) pronounced "malware"
>>> with the first syllable like "mall."  I would pronounce the first
>>> syllable to rhyme with "pal"--though I don't believe I have ever
>>> actually spoken the word; perhaps I hadn't even heard it spoken.  I
>>> there a "standard" pronunciation?
>> What about "Male Contents"?  is it mail, mal (as in pal), moll, or
>> mall?  is it CON-tents, or con-TENTS?
>>
>> Joel
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