Re: Fonts to present phonology in IPA at web pages

On Wed, 20 Mar 2002 21:04:07 EST David Peterson <DigitalScream@...>
writes:
>     P.S.: Anyone heard of this practice of rendering the plural of
> Macintosh
> as Macintoshen?  Who dreamt this up?
> -David
-

Sounds to me like an analogy based on _hamentash_ ~ _hamentashen_.  For
those who don't know, hamentashen are triangular cookies filled with
fruit, chocolate, or (bleah!) poppy seeds that are associated with the
Jewish holiday of Purim.  The name is a play-on-words; _man-tashen_
was/is the Germanic word for something like "poppy pouch", but if you add
/ha/ to the beginning, you get Haman, the name of the villain in the
story of Purim (found in the Scroll of Esther).  Therefore,
"hamentashen".


-Stephen (Steg)
 "new (nu?), what do you own the world?
  how do you own disorder?
  now, somewhere between the sacred silence
  sacred silence and sleep."
     ~ 'toxicity' by system of a down

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