Whooping, but not with an extension cord

[Wilson Gray]

Since Peterson is a native of Palestine - "PAL-uh-steen" - but a hoot and a
holler from Marshall in East Texas, no doubt he said [hwUp'm].

It can be hard to choose a spelling for non-standard stuff. I've been
working on a spelling for [m at ra:nI] / [m at raInou] for dekkids. Since I have
no idea how anyone else might spell it, either, trying to find
documentation of it is difficult, if not impossible, to do.

On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 10:46 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

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>  From a front-page article on the indictment of Minnesota running
> back Adrian Peterson for child abuse (in print as "N.F.L. Rocked
> Again as Star Faces a Child Abuse Charge", by Steve Eder and Pat
> Borzi, Sept. 13; the on-line version is redacted):
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> "Peterson told the police that he would give 'whoopings' to his son
> for misbehavior, the [police] report said, according to CBS Houston.
> But Peterson denied that he had ever used extension cords. 'Oh, no,
> I'd never hit my child with an extension cord. I remember how it
> feels to get whooped with an extension cord. I'd never do that'."
>
> Not anything at all, I suppose, like his getting whooped by fans
> after a particularly spectacular play on the field, or a performer by
> the audience at a popular music concert.
>
> Unless, of course, "whooping" is a mistranscription by the police of
> Peterson's oral "whupping", or his pronunciation of "whipping".
>
> Joel
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