Re: Unrelated questions (was Re: Two countries)
| From: | Joe <joe@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, May 18, 2003, 19:25 |
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From: "Geoffrey Stone Gordonssen" <stonegordonssen@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2003 7:11 PM
Subject: Unrelated questions (was Re: Two countries)
> > its good as all git out.
>
> Anyone know the origin of the phrase "... as all get out"? Is it an
> odd derrivation from "all got up" i.e. "fancied up", "decorated"? I
> grew up hearing the phrase used by my Deep South peers.
>
> On another note, a friend asked me how Brits differentiate "ta-ta"
> for "goodbye" from "tata" for breast. I told him that I believed it
> was primarily by tone and stress: [ta"ta:_H] versus ["tata]. Yes? No?
>
Um...maybe I'm not representative of British people..but I have never ever
heard "tata" as a synonym for breast. But, I would guess, based on my
intuition...it's a case of [t@tA:] vs [tAta]
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