sammie

[Jonathan Lighter]

In the future, Louis Armstrong will be assumed to have been sandwich
connoisseur.

JL


On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 11:31 AM, W Brewer <brewerwa at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Now thinking about it, I detect a phonetic gradation of <sandwich>es:
> [SAND-which] > [SAN-which] > [SAM-witch] > [SAM-mitch].
>                             [SA(nasalization)-which] >
> [SA(nasalizationTCH].
> Holdamayo.
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