Re: CHAT: con-childish taunts

On Tue, 18 May 1999, John Cowan wrote:

> Lars Henrik Mathiesen wrote:
>
> > I always assumed that "olley" was from French "allez" ("come", 2pl.
> > imperative). I can't guess what "oxen" would be, though.
>
> American English pronounces "all" with a velar lateral.  The
> distance from "all's in" to "oxen" involves only changing the
> lateral to a stop.
That's mighty foreign!  If I change it to a stop, I get "aatsin", with
the a slightly lengthened.

Padraic.

>
> --
> John Cowan      http://www.ccil.org/~cowan              cowan@ccil.org
>         You tollerday donsk?  N.  You tolkatiff scowegian?  Nn.
>         You spigotty anglease?  Nnn.  You phonio saxo?  Nnnn.
>                 Clear all so!  'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)
>