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There is a linguistic term for this, which I cannot recall.
I think it's called "shortening."
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There is a linguistic term for this, which I cannot recall.
I think it's called "shortening."
You mean that stuff you use to make pie into pi?
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here's another, Quack, (as in a doctor, who's qualifications are not quite up to snuff) is a shortened form of Quacksalver.
(a quacksalver used to be a person who boasted or "quacked" about his salves and healing compounds.)
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I think it's called "shortening."
Nah. Shortening is that white greasy substance which is an adequate substitute for neither lard nor butter.
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Apocope!
zmjezhd and Michael Quinion to the rescue!
Hence, the familiar song:
Apocope
And get your hat.
Leave your worries on the doorstep
And direct your feet
To the shorter side of the street.
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Oh, an i was thinking of
Shortnin', shortnin',
mama's little baby loves shortnin' bread!
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Dear Helen ~
Be careful. This is getting perilously close to a food thread and you know that there are those who get grumpy when we slip like that.
Chef Steve
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Oh, Father Steve, i am getting perilously close to being cited by the gutter police.. if you think shortin' bread is about food, you live a sheltered life!
(i chose blue textnot unintentionally!)
children's songs, (until Disney and PBS took over) where often about grown up subjects.
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