On Wed, 14 Apr 2004, margerum wrote: > >On Wed, 14 Apr 2004, Stewart McCoy wrote: > > > >> 4) I don't know how the letter "t" vanished from Hunt's Up, bu > >> hese hings happen from ime o ime. > >Maybe the same assimilation that transforms "what's up" into "wazzup"? > >Waddaya think? > > > >Peter. > > izzat so?
Yes, I think so, and actually I also think that the change from the p at the end to a k is likely to be not an instance of dyslexia, but one of dysaudia. I bet that hearing the difference between a k and a p sounds in a noisy room is much more difficult than seeing the difference between the two letters in a misty room. (At comparable noise/mist levels, whatever that may mean.) All these modifications look like word of mouth effects to me. Do we have a phonologist on board? Peter. > > Ed Margerum > > -- the next auto-quote is: If the Bible and my brain are both the work of the same Infinite God, whose fault is it that the book and my brain do not agree? (Robert G. Ingersoll) /\/\ Peter Nightingale Telephone (401) 874-5882 Department of Physics, East Hall Fax (401) 874-2380 University of Rhode Island Kingston, RI 02881
