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>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 also has 'thingum' and
'thingumbob' and 'thingumajig' as relatives, all with /N/ not /Ng/... I'd have
/Ng/ in all but "thingum" (which isn't a word I have anyway).
*Muke!
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