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From: Nick Rezmerski <rezm0001@gold.tc.umn.edu>
Subject: Re: food for thought
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stevemac@bud.indirect.com (Pascal MacProgrammer) wrote:
>
> Not so very long ago, 101b-bq@sophia.smith.edu (Anne Nester) said...
> 
> >Is the English (American, I think) colloquialism "vittles" a contraction
> >of the semi-archaic "victuals"? 
> 
>   No.  It's a =mispronunciation= of "victuals", not a contraction.
> 
> -- 
>                               ==----=                    Steve MacGregor
>                              ([.] [.])                     Phoenix, AZ
> --------------------------oOOo--(_)--oOOo----------------------------------
>         Help stamp out, eliminate, and abolish redundancy!

I'd buy that, except that 'victuals' is *also* pronounced 'vittles.'
It looks more like a phoneticized spelling of the correct pronunciation.

  - Nick@Nite (Nicholas J. Rezmerski)
    rezm0001@gold.tc.umn.edu - University of Minnesota
    Opinions are clearly mine, not the University of Minnesota's
    (So don't tell them what I said!)
