Re: CHAT: thingummy (was Re: concepts of Babel text)
| From: | Padraic Brown <pbrown@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, May 4, 2001, 20:51 |
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On Thu, 3 May 2001, Eric Christopherson wrote:
>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
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>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.
/'TIN@mi/ I use it all the time; along with /'hw@tsIt/ /'TIN@m@bab/
/'huzIt/ and /'TIN@m@,dZIg/. I've also used /'nosE,ke/ /'n&kvaR,R&t/
and /'nEskjo,kwa:m/ at times. I'll have to add /'TIN@mi,hw@tsits/ to
the list!
Padraic.
>Eric Christopherson / *Aiworegs Ghristobhorosyo
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