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be My favorite: LAUGHTER ..... SLAUGHTER
Why is POLICE plural but ARMY singular?
ITALIAN AMERICAN LINGUISTICS Gomah and goombah derive respectively from COMARE and COMPARE, which in turn derive from late Latin CUMMATER and CUMPATER (cum = with). They used to indicate 'godmother and godfather' and eventually became honorifics. Compare is hierarchically lower than Don and Vossignoria and conveys a sense of familiarity and respect. Many Southern dialects present the common phenomenon of 'voicing' whereby Italian sounds such as K, P, T become G, B and D. Thus COMARE tends to be pronounced as GOMA(RE) and COMPARE becomes GOMBA(RE). A further common phenomenon is the concentration of a word's phonetic energy on the stressed syllable. Standard Italian tends to spread the energy more or less evenly on the syllables. The stress on a word is marked more by the length of the syllable than the 'intensity' (the lengthening of the stressed syllable is what makes Italian particularly suited for opera singing. You can rest your voice on the stressed syllable for ever --literally -- without changing the overall structure of sound/pronunciation.) In dialect, the energy concentrated on the stressed syllable (normally the penultimate) is subtracted mostly from the last syllable. The word undergoes first a weakening of the sound in its tail end which eventually leads to 'elision' or dropping of the last syllable all together. As to "Guido" I would be curious to find out where it originated. I became aware of it more or less in the mid 80's when I moved East from the Midwest. Does anyone know about the history of the term?
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| boot, moot, root, loot, toot but foot, soot |
| swear and swear: why the two totally opposite meanings? |
welcome clearly derives from well-come so why is it welcomed? joe welcomed his guests. shouldn't it be WELCAME?
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| IS THIS THE NEW NORMAL? The loss of the plural form? It
seems so. NOT ONLY, but when I watch live videos, TV etc, it seems that the plural "S" in many instances is also disappearing. Or am I going deaf?
"There’s so many things that are hard to hear every day that you do want to have some Oreos. " |
| to produce and 'produce' (as in fresh produce)
STRESS position phenomenon, common in VERB/NOUN ADDRESS / ADDRESS REBEL / REBEL
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| CHAR, CHART, CHARD, CHARM CHARACTER, CHARACTERISTIC |
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Naturalization Act (An act to establish
an uniform rule of naturalization.)
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Momentarily: for a few moments not 'in a few moments'
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| My favorite: LAUGHTER ..... SLAUGHTER Read aloud. |
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| WIND / WIND |
| TO DRAW -> drawer |
| Respiratory -> resp'itory febRuary -> feb'uary debt -> de't |
| Have you ever heard the expression *Southern bell? |
| dose hose nose pose rose LOSE |
| I remember when You used to walk to school.
How do you form the corresponding question? ??* DID YOU USE TO WALK TO SCHOOL? ??* DID YOU USED TO WALK TO SCHOOL? and the answer is: USED YOU TO WALK TO SCHOOL? "used" is a servile verb, like CAN WOULD SHOULD COULD etc. |
| Why is POLICE plural but ARMY singular? |
| COLORS: In English BURGUNDY, in Italian BORDEAUX (or, bordo') My preference is for Burgundy wines any time (but they cost more) |
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From a CNN online poll
Should man use
cloning to try and revive extinct species, like the woolly mammoth?
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| Go slowly because it’s easy to miss. Or: go slowly because it’s easy to miss it. |
| Same word, different meanings: ROCK noun and verb |
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Same spelling, different pronunciation WIND
Same sound, different spelling KNEAD NEED
Same word different meaning; TO LIE, TO SWEAR
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ENCE/ANCE endings Existence correspondence penitence essence independence
IN A CAR WASH Please ask attendant about Gold Plating Pin Stripping Graphics
============================== in the wake of what does wake mean? it is the groove in the water made by a boat.... nella scia.....
================================ FRIENDLY is an adjective: He is a friendly person. What is the modal adverb derived from FRIENDLY? IT should be FRIENDLY-LY, or FRIENDLI-LY Not: in a friendly manner.
==================== Adverbization of adjectives: You can do this very quick (instead of very quickly) There for the Comparative? "more quick" or "quicker" You can do it [more quick // quicker] with a hammer.
=========== Youtube language: tutorial and instructional videos: they show you how to do something and they finish with: "You put in a screw in LIKE SO". I always said "LIKE THIS". Hmmmm....... it seems a recent phenomenon. ===================== minimal pair: silicone - silicon adam atom (pronunciation) rider writer (length ay) ================
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ITALIAN AMERICAN LINGUISTICS:
Gomah and goombah derive respectively from COMARE and
COMPARE, which in turn derive from late Latin CUMMATER and
CUMPATER (cum =
with).
They used to indicate 'godmother and godfather' and eventually became
honorifics. Compare is hierarchically lower than Vossignoria
(the highest) and Don (second): compare
conveys a sense of familiarity, equal standing but with reciprocal respect.
Many Southern dialects present the common phenomenon of 'voicing' whereby
Italian sounds such as K, P, T become G, B and D.
Thus COMARE tends to be
pronounced as GOMA(RE) and COMPARE becomes
GOMBA(RE).
A further common phenomenon is the concentration of a word's phonetic energy
on the stressed syllable. Standard Italian tends to spread the energy more
or less evenly on the syllables. The stress on a word is marked more by the
length of the syllable than the 'intensity' (the lengthening of the stressed
syllable is what makes Italian particularly suited for opera singing. You
can rest your voice on the stressed syllable for ever --literally --
without changing the overall structure of sound/pronunciation.) In dialect,
the energy concentrated on the stressed syllable (normally the penultimate)
is subtracted mostly from the last syllable. The word undergoes first a
weakening of the sound in its tail end which eventually leads to 'elision'
or dropping of the last syllable all together.
As to "Guido" I would be curious to find out where it originated. I became
aware of it more or less in the mid 80's when I moved East from the Midwest.
Does anyone know about the history of the term?