[Ads-l] Wunderkind > wonder-kind

[Laurence Horn]

> On Mar 6, 2019, at 11:37 AM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> I don't understand. Wunderkind is a common German/Yiddish word that
> entered English like so many others.
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> DanG

Yes, but she was clearly unfamiliar with it, at least as an item in speech, and came up with a natural enough spelling pronunciation.  Or maybe she’d *heard* [vəndɚˌkʰInd] but failed to associate it with the written form “Wunderkind”, the way some of us might have been familiar with hearing [mIs'lEd] as the past tense of “mislead”, but coming across “misled” in print failed to recognize the connection and pronounced it “MY-zld” [‘maiz(@)ld]. I know, Laura Ingraham probably doesn’t deserve the benefit of doubt, but still…

LH 
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> On Wed, Mar 6, 2019 at 11:29 AM Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
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>> Clearly she meant “wonder-kid”. Whatever became of “whiz-kid”?
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>>> On Mar 5, 2019, at 11:14 PM, W Brewer <brewerwa at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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>>> <Wunderkind> [ˈvundɐʁˌkʰɪnt] --> <wonder + kind> [ˈwəndɚˌkʰɑind].
>>> Laura Ingraham referred to AOC's financial assistant as a [ˈwəndɚˌkʰɑind,
>>> wonder + kind]. Fox News, The Ingraham Angle.
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