[Ads-l] origamo

[Laurence Horn]

> On Mar 11, 2018, at 9:07 AM, Ben Zimmer <bgzimmer at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> Don't forget that the stress pattern for "oregano" in British English puts
> the accent on the "ga" -- matching "origamo"/"origami”.

Interesting.  I couldn’t forget it though, since I never knew it.  So maybe complicity is called for.  

LH
> 
> 
> 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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