[Ads-l] Wunderkind > wonder-kind

[Wilson Gray]

> “misled”

  I was reading something or other, when I came across the Past, _misled_,
of a verb that was completely new to me, _misle_ [‘maiz(@)l]. I couldn't
find a trace of it in any reference. This was before dehyphenation was a
thing and I was accustomed to "mis-led."

On Wed, Mar 6, 2019 at 1:20 PM Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:

> > On Mar 6, 2019, at 11:37 AM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> >
> > I don't understand. Wunderkind is a common German/Yiddish word that
> > entered English like so many others.
> >
> > 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
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 6, 2019 at 11:29 AM Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Clearly she meant “wonder-kid”. Whatever became of “whiz-kid”?
> >>
> >>> On Mar 5, 2019, at 11:14 PM, W Brewer <brewerwa at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> <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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