Re: Most common irregular verbs?
| From: | Jim Henry <jimhenry1973@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, January 17, 2006, 16:13 |
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On 1/17/06, Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...> wrote:
> --- caeruleancentaur <caeruleancentaur@...>
> wrote:
> >...but certain adjectives,
> > particulary some
> > borrowed from French, especially in stereotypical
> > phrases, appear
> > after the noun, in what grammarians sometimes call
> > the post-positive
> > position: _chaise longue_,
> How funny! I'm 60 and for my entire life, up until
> today, I have always understood that to be the
> adjective "chaise" followed by the noun "longue",
> where "chaise" was a particular kind of "longue". To
> find that it is the other way around just shakes the
> very foundation of my reality!! ;-)
In my 'lect it's been reanalyzed that way, too:
'longue' becomes 'lounge', and it's pronounced
/tSejs l&wndZ/. I'm not sure I've heard that
usage from anybody outside my family (but
I haven't ever heard /Sez lON/ or /tSejs lON/
from anybody, period; probably because
it's not a terribly common piece of furniture).
--
Jim Henry
http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry
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