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but it still seems too clinical, matter of fact and grammatical a word to use for poetical nonsense where it is the sheer joy of the juxtaposed similar sounds
That is, I suppose, where we'll just have to disagree. Seems like the correct word for the right job. Let me know what your poetical term is when you find it.
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The current AWAD by Anu, gives an interesting comment
about Pall Mall, pell mell, and the cigarrette's pronunciation
and how it has changed since the banishment of cigarette
advertisements on American TV. Interesting how TV
influences language.
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Interesting discussion. I am benefitting.
Above mention of Wagga Wagga, in New South Wales, I think.
How about Walla Walla in Washington State???
Probably a native word.
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Speaking from personal experience I can say that the pronunciations pell-mell and paul-maul were both commonly used in the late '40s and the '50s for the cigarette brand.
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Speaking from personal experience I can say that the pronunciations pell-mell and paul-maul were both commonly used in the late '40s and the '50s for the cigarette brand. I had an aunt who smoked them, and she called them paul/maul, her husband called them pel/mel.
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Interesting discussion. I am benefitting.
Above mention of Wagga Wagga, in New South Wales, I think.
How about Walla Walla in Washington State???
Probably a native word.
Actually there is also a Walla Walla in NSW, not far from Wagga Wagga. It is also aborignal in origin. I have no idea what the etymology of the Washington Walla Walla would be. It could be a corruption of a European word like Valhalla or Voila or a native American word.
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Actually there is also a Walla Walla in NSW, not far from Wagga Wagga.
Too bad it's not in Western Australia.
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Actually there is also a Walla Walla in NSW, not far from Wagga Wagga.
Too bad it's not in Western Australia. Yes our WA state often gets confused with your WA state. Would be a nice address to have wouldn't it? Walla Walla WA.
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I wonder how many other situations there are like
Walla Walla WA?
Not exactly the same, but we have Okla City, Okla.
And New York NY or NYNY. Ne City NE . Hummmm?
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I'm quite sure that, even I, really don't know.
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