[Ads-l] In an ad for something-or-other,
Laurence Horn
laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Tue May 17 01:45:13 UTC 2016
> On May 16, 2016, at 9:37 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>
> the voice-overer pronounces "cannabis" as "k'NOBbis."
>
> Surely, this won't catch on, will it?
Hmmm. A misspelling pronunciation?
LH
>
> --
> -Wilson
> -----
> All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
> come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
> -Mark Twain
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> The American Dialect Society - https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.americandialect.org&d=AwIBaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=wFp3X4Mu39hB2bf13gtz0ZpW1TsSxPIWYiZRsMFFaLQ&m=Gux7XMSAopKEC-i3WXrQvlUxNVc_ESKPnCT4zrRIMjg&s=Ftdi-8b854O-LtMIvphIroeMPhDH3auI0VG8O7QkjPE&e=
------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org
More information about the Ads-l
mailing list