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Re: CHAT: thingummy (was Re: concepts of Babel text)

From:Raymond Brown <ray.brown@...>
Date:Friday, May 4, 2001, 19:47
At 10:04 am -0400 4/5/01, Muke Tever wrote:
>>===== Original Message From Constructed Languages List ><CONLANG@...> ===== >>On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 01:30:06AM +0100, Dan Jones wrote: >>> Easily solved: Schleicher's "sheep and horses" fable!!! No cultural >>> thingummy-wotsits and it's got a lot of linguistic significance. Perfect >> >>How does one pronounce <thingummy>? I've only ever seen it once before, in >>one of the Chronicles of Narnia, and obviously never heard it spoken. > >I would say /'TiNgVmi/, but OED has /'TIN@mI/
..and so it is on the Brit side of the pond.
>and also has 'thingum' and >'thingumbob' and 'thingumajig' as relatives, all with /N/ not /Ng/...
Absolutely spot - we always have /N/, not /Ng/ and all with initial stress on 'thing'. I've heard all those words (and other variants) in this neck of the woods. But in this day & age when words are cut short 'cause life moves so fast, "thingy" /'TINi/ is probably the more common form. Ray. ========================================= A mind which thinks at its own expense will always interfere with language. [J.G. Hamann 1760] =========================================