[Ads-l] origamo

[Ben Zimmer]

Don't forget that the stress pattern for "oregano" in British English puts
the accent on the "ga" -- matching "origamo"/"origami".


On Sat, Mar 10, 2018 at 12:21 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

> And presumably those who are exceptionally partial to oregano insist on
> oregani, as suggested at
> https://www.veenas.com/natco-dried-oregani-25g.html
>
> I’d implicate “oregano” as complicit in the reanalysis of “origami” to
> “origamo”, but the stress pattern makes this dubious.
>
> LH
>
>
>
>
> > On Mar 10, 2018, at 12:02 PM, Barretts Mail <mail.barretts at GMAIL.COM>
> wrote:
> >
> > Fascinating find.
> >
> > That would mean people have reanalyzed “origami” as a count noun, so I
> went through about 50 Google hits for “many origami” and found nothing to
> support that (“many origami projects”, etc.) A more detailed search would
> probably yield something.
> >
> > I looked briefly at the hits for origamo:
> >
> > An apparel company which seems to account for the lion’s share of
> origamo hits - https://origamoapparel.com/ <https://origamoapparel.com/>
> > A DOS game - https://www.myabandonware.com/game/origamo-2vx <
> https://www.myabandonware.com/game/origamo-2vx>
> > Italian back formation from origami - https://www.divertilandia.it/
> biglietto-pop-up-origamo-pavone <https://www.divertilandia.it/
> biglietto-pop-up-origamo-pavone>
> >
> > And what appears to be an English usage of origamo for origami:
> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYZwe9lzbHg <https://www.youtube.com/
> watch?v=UYZwe9lzbHg>
> >
> > Benjamin Barrett
> > Formerly of Seattle, WA
> >
> >> On 10 Mar 2018, at 07:49, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Jane Seymour on CNN speaks of "a sort of origamo thing," i.e. a single
> ex.
> >> of origami.
> >>
> >> Thousands of unsifted Google hits on "origamo."
> >
> >
>

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