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Re: USAGE: The four shits in English

From:John Cowan <jcowan@...>
Date:Friday, February 4, 2000, 20:25
And Rosta wrote:

> Maybe it's a kind of folk-etymology or reanalysis in origin, but these > days it is _ratshit_, [rEtS@t].
Which indeed is how I pronounce "wretched"? How is "wretched" rendered in Australian, anybody? -- Schlingt dreifach einen Kreis vom dies! || John Cowan <jcowan@...> Schliesst euer Aug vor heiliger Schau, || http://www.reutershealth.com Denn er genoss vom Honig-Tau, || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Und trank die Milch vom Paradies. -- Coleridge (tr. Politzer)