[Ads-l] RES: Redditery

[David Daniel]

I had the same reaction/thought yesterday, but if you write and pronounce it
"twaddle" it doesn't really fit into the category of words that sound dirty
but aren't. Only a crisp "twattle" pronunciation with distinct Ts would
qualify for that, IMHO.
DAD

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De: American Dialect Society [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] Em nome de
Laurence Horn
Enviada em: quinta-feira, 26 de maio de 2022 12:12
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Assunto: Re: Redditery



Poster:       Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Redditery
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I noticed that yesterday's Anu Garg's Word A Day post (the theme this week
is "words that sound dirty but aren't", e.g. nudum pactum, titubation, cock
of the walk) was for "twattle", which I had always thought was "twaddle".
The OED informs me it's pretty much always been both, or either.
Presumably the "twaddle" spelling, although more common, would have been a
bridge too far for the AWAD category in question.

LH

On Thu, May 26, 2022 at 10:55 AM Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

> "Some other student _taddled_ on us."
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