The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #25235   Message #295097
Posted By: M.Ted
11-Sep-00 - 01:32 PM
Thread Name: BS: Mangling the English Language
Subject: RE: BS: Mangling the English Language
"Ne-go-see-ate" for negotiate--the creeping return of the silent "l". first in "Palm", then in "Salmon", and now, and most disturbing, in "walk"(first was "wok", then "Wauk", and now, ever so gradually, people are turning it into "waulk"), and "ignorant", as in, "I hadda get ignorant with him."