Re: OFF-TOPIC: Misspoken... Sort Of

{ 20040524 | Danny Wier }

"'Tit' is a mispronuskiation of 'teat', isn't it?"

Not a mispronOUNCiation (makes me wield an axe), but a dialect form
misunderstood as a different word. Like "ho". There just ain't no right
way to spell HO. Hoe? What's the plural? Duh, "HO'Z".

So yes, the Predizent is also the teatular leader of the country, but
that's a separate issue.

"My wife (who grew up in Boston among other places) used to say [Ar
'k&n z@s] with the stress on the second syllable and it drove me NUTS.
Glad she never went to Illinois and publicly pronounced the name of the
state with the -s on the end -- allegedly, it's a crime there."

Yeah, that's awesome. I'm a native New Englander so I've prolly heard
it. (There's another fave of mine: prolly.)

I usually end up saying /IrInIwak/, with flapped -r-, because it's
Miami-Cree for "People": common ancestral form iriniw, pl. iriniwaki.
The modern "Iynut" (Eastern Montagnais) of Canada are at the physical
and linguistic extremes of the Algonkian linguistic chain and the
R-Dialect Cree "Iriniwak" are at the conservative end. Syncope,
reduction/loss of final consonants (including Montagnais k/_i > t and
Fox-Sauk-Kikapú -w/# > 0) plus the "explosion" of proto-Algonkian r
into (r, y, l, n) in what appears to have been a random and extremely
late change across the entire family makes it a little messy.

Anyway, that's an aside to the aside.

> 1. Canadia - amusing malapropism derived from Canadian
Also, since I've covered most of my Top Ten now, let me add HOLLISH:
"someone from The Netherlands".

Nota bene: Californians seem to be referring to Schwarzenegger (sp.) as
The Governator. Including the newspapers.

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