[Ads-l] I am abash=?utf-8?Q?=C3=A8dly_?=patriotic.

[Laurence Horn]

Maybe a combo of the fact that “abashedly” (as the opposite of “unabashedly”) doesn’t exist and the fact that the first syllable of “abashedly” might be processed as a reduced “un”?  Or, I know--as the Greek alpha privative prefix as in “atypical” or “amoral”—although that might have led to the pronunciation /'ebaeS at dli/ (‘in a manner supportive of, without bashing’).

LH 

> On Oct 16, 2018, at 6:24 AM, W Brewer <brewerwa at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> Abashèdly, i.e. 'unabashèdly'  ("You got to AC-CENT-TCHU-ATE the positive,
> E-LIM-EYE-NATE the negative ..." ---Johnny Mercer.)
> << I am abashèdly patriotic. >> spoken by Mark Salvas, FoxNews 20181016.
> Written article:  << "I’m not ashamed of my patriotism, not one bit," said
> Salvas, a Gulf War veteran. "I fought for this country. I think I have a
> right to have a voice and be patriotic." >>
> http://insider.foxnews.com/2018/10/15/pennsylvania-democrat-mark-salvas-forced-resign-over-controversial-facebook-posts
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