[Ads-l] mannyerism
Laurence Horn
laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Tue Aug 23 16:28:57 UTC 2016
> On Aug 23, 2016, at 11:16 AM, Cohen, Gerald Leonard <gcohen at MST.EDU> wrote:
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> Did "mannyerism" here somehow result from an alteration of "mannerism" under the influence of "aneurysm"?
Seems plausible, and I hadn't either. Maybe farmers practicing traditional methods of fertilizing are proponents of manurism (if they're into stress shift).
LH
> (Btw, I had never come across the pronunciation "mannyerism" before.)
>
> G. Cohen
> ________________________________________
> Jonathan Lighter [wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM], Monday, August 22, 2016 7:31 PM, wrote:
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> A D-----d T---p "surrogate" explains to MSNBC that the shocking state
> of Hillary Clinton's health can be seen clearly in "her behavior and
> mannyerisms."
>
> JL
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