End of ADS-L Digest - 16 Sep 1995 to 17 Sep 1995

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There are 27 messages totalling 434 lines in this issue.



Topics of the day:



 1. reasonably bizarre anymore! (5)

 2. Mondegreens (2)

 3. Pullet Surprises (3)

 4. no mishaps (4)

 5. Not to be prescriptive, but...

 6. Consonant Cluster Reduction

 7. Consonant Cluster Reduction/Busleft

 8. A coinage worth keeping

 9. Usage: "any more" (fwd) (3)

 10. The Quayling of American Usage? (2)

 11. Mondegreens (Pulitzer)

 12. Inaugurations: Ohio, Staten Island, Grand Rapids

 13. Going postal (2)



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Date:  Mon, 18 Sep 1995 00:04:05 -0700

From:  Anton Sherwood <dasher[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]NETCOM.COM>

Subject: reasonably bizarre anymore!



Possibly analogous to the positive use of "anymore":

any comment on this use of "reasonably"? (seen on stumpers-l)



> the show has never been on Masterpiece Theatre. It was called Nice Town

> and was a British show dealing with race in a reasonably bizarre manner.

> It was difficult to make out whether the show was a surreal commedy, a

> black comedy, or a serious narrative dealing with modern issues in the

> UK. The show was enjoyable although passing strange.



"reasonably bizarre" is a phrase I never expected to see used in a sentence.

Is "reasonably" used here as a synonym for "considerably"?

Or does it mean "not too bizarre"?



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> But what happens to the glide in the first syllable of "Pulitzer"?



What glide?



*\\* Anton                       Ubi scriptum?