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Re: druthers etc

Myridon #175428 04/01/2008 11:14 PM

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Originally Posted By: Myridon
...so no one is going to comment on the original post which calls making one Spanish word into one English word a contraction? Oh, wait, I think I just did...

It's simultaneously a contraction and a borrowing. Hoosegow, whilst it has more letters than juzgado, has one fewer syllables and is phonemically a contraction of sorts.

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