[Ads-l] Who ya gonna call?

[Jonathan Lighter]

I like my version better, because it involves a truly mysterious
"Lahdeedahdee."

Who could it be?

JL

On Wed, Dec 7, 2022 at 5:45 PM Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

> Now, if American English truly distinguished between VdV and VtV...
>
> On Wed, Dec 7, 2022 at 5:12 PM Ben Zimmer <bgzimmer at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Rev. Warnock himself tweeted it as "Lottie Dottie and everybody."
> >
> > https://twitter.com/ReverendWarnock/status/1599154331433209856
> >
> > The news databases have examples going back to 1961, e.g.:
> >
> > ---
> > New Journal and Guide (Norfolk, Va.), Aug. 5, 1961, p. B15 [Proquest]
> > And the plan through which the committee will include Lottie, Dottie, and
> > Everybody as members is an excellent one.
> > ---
> > https://www.newspapers.com/clip/114266435/lottie-dottie-and-everybody/
> > Philadelphia Daily News, Dec. 5, 1961, p. 37
> > They know that she has done all the daily chores and is just waiting for
> > them to get home so she can go here, there and everywhere to visit
> Lottie,
> > Dottie, and everybody.
> > ---
> >
> > On Wed, Dec 7, 2022 at 4:09 PM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > A quick Google suggests you're right, with at least one ex. from 2015.
> > >
> > > JL
> > >
> > > On Wed, Dec 7, 2022 at 4:03 PM Jonathan Lighter <
> wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Maybe  but I didn't hear the expected pause between putative "Lottie"
> > and
> > > > "Dottie."
> > > >
> > > > JL
> > > >
> > > > On Wed, Dec 7, 2022 at 12:31 PM Margaret Lee <
> > > > 0000006730deb3bf-dmarc-request at listserv.uga.edu> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >>  Could Warnock have meant, "call Lottie, Dottie" and everybody?
> > > >>     On Tuesday, December 6, 2022 at 11:39:23 AM EST, Dan Goncharoff
> <
> > > >> thegonch at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >>
> > > >>  You mean, like the song?
> > > >>
> > > >> https://youtu.be/icBflcYZhpo
> > > >>
> > > >> On Tue, Dec 6, 2022, 8:16 AM Jonathan Lighter <
> wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com
> > >
> > > >> wrote:
> > > >>
> > > >> > Raphael Warnock on getting out the vote:
> > > >> >
> > > >> > "Call your father and your mother, your sister and your brother.
> > Call
> > > >> > Lah-Di-Dah-Di and everybody."
> > >
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> - Wilson
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