[Ads-l] In an ad for something-or-other,

Ben Zimmer bgzimmer at GMAIL.COM
Tue May 17 02:17:57 UTC 2016


On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 9:45 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

> > 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?
>

Too much k'NOBbis will mess up your s'LOBbles.

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