[Ads-l] [Non-DoD Source] Re: on the origins of the (muttly [not in OED]) English language (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill CIV (US)]

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Doesn't anyone take it to mean "the set of words used by Dick Dastardly's sidekick, Muttley"?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dastardly_and_Muttley_in_Their_Flying_Machines


Of course, it isn't that big of a vocabularly, since mostly, he just laughed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hw3CE04LGiA


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> > On Nov 18, 2015, at 11:19 AM, Joel Berson <berson at ATT.NET> wrote:
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> > Well, one more comment -- I like "This muttly vocabulary" ... 
> particularly since (am I correct?) McWhorter has constructed an adverb.   To convey a sense of action?
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> > Joel
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