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The Grate Amrican Dreem
New York Times, January 4, 2005
"English words are difficult for foreigners to spell. But part of what seems to be happening in New York City today is an overlapping of ethnic groups that confounds attempts at proper orthography. With Mexicans working in pizzerias and Afghans pushing hot dog carts, even ethnic words get misspelled.
So just about any Italian dish with more than two syllables presents difficulties, and words in which consonants run in pairs, like mozzarella, or run up against unruly vowels, like parmigiana, are never spelled the same way twice. One pizzeria on 41st Street has spaguetti with clam sause, and a lunch cart on Lexington Avenue and 46th Street helps out-of-towners by spelling knish "kanish."
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/04/nyregion/04english2.html?pagewanted=2&8hpib
Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted Denglish plutarch 12/22/04 11:28 AM Re: Denglish plutarch 12/22/04 12:12 PM Chinglish? plutarch 12/22/04 03:58 PM Re: Chinglish? plutarch 12/23/04 08:46 PM Kanish for Sale plutarch 01/04/05 10:49 PM
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