[Ads-l] "Boxed" adj > "box"

[Jonathan Lighter]

And surely "box score" was once similar?

JL

On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 10:17 AM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> How 'bout the well established "box wine"?
>
> JL
>
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 9:43 AM Mark Mandel <markamandel at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> We've all been seeing "box set" (of a trilogy, set of CDs, etc.) for a
>> long
>> time. I've never liked it, but /bɔkssɛt/ is an unsurprising elision from
>> /bɔkstsɛt/.
>>
>> But this morning I see in the current (April(!)) issue of *Consumer
>> Reports
>> On Health* , p.7, top of the 3rd column
>> "One drawback of canned and box soups: sodium."
>>
>> It's the same cluster reduction, /bɔ*kst*sup/ > /bɔ*kss*up/. It's just the
>> first I recall seeing other than "... set".
>>
>> MAM
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