Re: Ice tea and Robin Hood

Paul Bennett scripsit:

> This seems like some kind of
> weak evidence that GA and RP have different rates of compund-formation
> from "Adj/Noun" (or "(Noun->Adj)/Noun"?) pairs[*].
Indeed.  A third data point is "skim milk", which is now standard American
(the container is so labeled), whereas "skimmed milk" remains standard
elsewhere.

> (rural North Carolingian) /'a:skr\im/ compares to the UK /'Ajs 'kri:m/ in
> much the same way as in the Robin Hood example. Hmm. There might be a
> thesis in there somewhere, for a suitably determined student.
>
> [*] please excuse my making up terminological devices on the spot. I
> never were too good with that there book-larnin'
Terminological buccaneering, as Northrop Frye said, is a necessity
nowadays.  I do like "Carolingian" in this context.

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