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Re: CHAT: F.L.O.E.S.

From:And Rosta <a.rosta@...>
Date:Wednesday, February 25, 2004, 1:56
Tristan:
> I have a job at IKEA.
I'll thank you not to mention such unspeakable things! If I ever organize an international terror network of mujahideen sworn to destroy the canker that destroys the fabric of virtuous society, its target of targets will be that swedish fount of evil. Like most people, I used to be mildly pro-Sweden until I was cast into the inferno that is I**a. Now blue and yellow -- and the Scandinavian style consensual egalitarian social democracy embodied by that den of iniquity -- fills me with unutterable horror.
> --- And Rosta <a.rosta@...> wrote: > > > And did you mean that pizza itself comes from > > America, or that > > > British are adopting an American pronunciation of > > the word "pizza" > > > (which around here is consistently ['pit:s@])? > > > > Pizza itself. I have recently been hearing /'pAst@/ > > from English > > mouths too, god help us. > > Pardon? I've always said 'pasta' the same as 'pastor' > with my /a:/ (also found in 'farm', 'palm', 'father'), > which I assume is the correct equivalent of your /A/, > under the assumption that the same lengthening rule > applied, either through age of borrowing or because > that made it sound more English at the time of > borrowing. I guess I'm kindav expecting to hear > [p_h&st@] from Americans. Or did Australians borrow it > from Americans? Or did you Brits re-borrow it?
A-lengthening in native vocab spread by lexical diffusion, so /past@/ needn't be a reborrowing (i.e. it could be that it simply escaped A-lengthening), and /pa:st@/ could be of any age, with a-lengthening applying to pasta by force of analogy with lots of words in /-a:st@/ and none in /-ast@/. Alternatively, it could, as you suggest, be taken from AmE, but this seems unlikely, since pasta must have become a feature of quotidian Australian life a bit earlier than hearing AmE (on telly etc.) did. --And.

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John Cowan <cowan@...>
Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>IKEA (was: Re: CHAT: F.L.O.E.S.)