Whooping, but not with an extension cord

[Joel S. Berson]

At 9/13/2014 11:14 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:

>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].

That, I assume, would be the transitive verb with its object.  But 
how would he pronounce the verbal noun "whupping"?  (Or is the 'm "ing"?)

I heard a TV sports commentator say not what I would spell as either 
"whipping", "whupping" (as in "pup"), or "whooping", but rather 
something close to "wh at pping" (schwa-like).

Joel


>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):
> >
> > "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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