[Lexicog] Phonolexical re-interpretations

[Rudolph C Troike]

Ken Hill's joke about the interpretation of [a:] as "R" or "I" probably
has its roots in actual facts. I offer two real-life reports related to
this:

	A friend waiting in line at an airline ticket counter in Florida
heard the person in front give the attendant his name, "[a:] Smith", to
which the attendant asked "What was that?", whereupon he repeated it. The
attendant again asked for a repetition, and the man finally said in
exasperation, "[a:], as in Richard".

	A teacher from Texas whose last name was Kaiser was registering
at a hotel in Boston, and when she gave her name to the clerk, pronouncing
it [ka:z at r], he said that they did not have a reservation for anyone by
that name. The problem became clear when she looked and saw that he had
written it down as "Carser".

	Rudy Troike




 
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