Timeline for Is there a (more-or-less) established spelling for “the us[ual]”?
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| Dec 4, 2021 at 2:10 | comment | added | tchrist♦ | Gosh, but her gauche uses of atrosh and ferosh and such really don’t scream /o/ to me! I think that’s because gosh is normal English but gauche is only an unassimilated French loanword that leaves us with no choice but to retain the French spelling because English has no way to spell it that lets people know what word was said. This seems to prove your point, or at least strengthen it. | |
| Dec 4, 2021 at 1:59 | comment | added | tchrist♦ | Check out the coda clusters and rimes Spradlin reports in table 9 of “OMG the Word-final Alveopalatals are Cray-cray Prev(alent): The Morphophonology of Totes Constructions in English”, University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics: Vol 22, Iss 1, Article 30, including deluj, confuzh, uzh, cazh, plej, sosh, promosh, precosh, negosh, losh, grosh, fosh, ferosh, emosh, atrosh, vacash, relaish, PlayStaish, paish, fellaish, celebraish, nostalj, strange rimes allegedly licensed by consonantal reassociation across syllable boundaries. | |
| Dec 3, 2021 at 19:46 | comment | added | Dan Bron | Thanks once again for the scholarship. Yeah, that spelling is near top of my list for that reason, my issue is it’ll pull people out of flow when reading; unambiguous but jarring. | |
| Dec 3, 2021 at 17:48 | comment | added | John Lawler | If you didn't care about it being standard, I'd go for "yoozh", which is at least unambiguous. | |
| Dec 3, 2021 at 17:30 | history | answered | John Lawler | CC BY-SA 4.0 |