[Ads-l] FW: "I say...Lusitani-ay"

[Jonathan Lighter]

Both forms (at least in print) are mostly Anglo-Irish:

I
1801 _Edes' Kennebec Gazette_ (Augusta, Me.) 1: Queer times we see/ In
Amerikee.

1829   _Delaware Register_ (Wilmington) (June 27) 2: Our forefathers who
bled and died for the invisible rights of Ameriky.

1836 _Times_ (London) (Aug. 9) 4: Look at Amerikee and see how cheap
they does the trick.

1844 _Weekly Herald _ (NYC) (Nov. 9) : The Irish...were. bawling
out..."Amerikee, and liberty forever."

1852 Sir Richard Digby Neave, bart. _Four Days in Connemara_ (London:
Bentley) 141: "I am going," he said, quite movingly, "to Amerikee, but
where I am going I know no more than the poor sheep turned out alone on the
mountain."



II

1830 _American and Commercial Daily Advertiser_ (Nov. 9) 2: Pat had thought
to visit 'North Amerikay' in...the year '98.

1833 _Dublin Penny Journal_ (Apr. 6) 328: By dad, he'd throw it to Scotland
or Amerikay.

2012 _Sarasota Herald-Tribune_ (Apr. 26. 40E: "Gone to Amerikay," three
intertwined stories about Irish nationals coming to America in 1870, 1960,
and 2010.

JL

On Thu, Sep 1, 2022 at 12:27 PM Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

> > sodie-pop
>
> Cry of carbonated-drink sellers at events in St. Louis: "Cold sodie here!"
> Otherwise, "soduh" is the usual pronunciation.
>
> On Wed, Aug 31, 2022 at 7:53 PM Gordon, Matthew J. <GordonMJ at missouri.edu>
> wrote:
>
> > I meant to share this with the list.
> >
> >
> > From: Gordon, Matthew J. <GordonMJ at missouri.edu>
> > Date: Wednesday, August 31, 2022 at 6:51 PM
> > To: James Landau <jjjrlandau at netscape.com>
> > Subject: Re: "I say...Lusitani-ay"
> > That pronunciation of America with final /i/ or /ɪ/ was common enough to
> > be cited by Kenyon in American Pronunciation and noted as part of a class
> > of words that includes cholera, sofa, Martha, etc. and is also seen in
> > sodie-pop and Opry, Grand Ole. Kenyon mistakenly asserts it as the source
> > (via hypercorrection) of the variation in the final vowel of Missouri.
> >
> > Matt Gordon
> >
> > From: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> on behalf of
> > James Landau <00000c13e57d49b8-dmarc-request at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> > Date: Wednesday, August 31, 2022 at 6:08 PM
> > To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> > Subject: Re: "I say...Lusitani-ay"
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> > Something I am curious about:
> > There is a song with the words       Home boys home that's where I want
> to
> > be       Home boys home back in God's country       The ash and the oak
> and
> > the weeping willow tree        And the grass grows green back in North
> > Ameri--kee
> > I don't know much about this song, and I can't offhand thank of any other
> > uses of "Ameri--kee".  A nonce usage?
> >
> > James Landau
> > jjjrlandau at netscape.com
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