sammie

[Laurence Horn]

Or Satchel Paige—"Don't look back, something may be gaining on you, wearing a sandwich board".

LH

On Aug 17, 2014, at 11:36 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:

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