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Example sentences for: slurvian
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I have heard milk pronounced “meowk” by one of my Georgia relatives, but I would hesitate to label “meowk” as an example of double-syllable Slurvian.
In his article, “American Slurvian” [XIV, 2], Richard Lederer issued a delicious challenge; however, some of the terms he claims are examples of Slurvian are highly suspect.
Perhaps we Slurvophobes should be alert to three types of pure Slurvian; regular, elevated, and complete sentence.
Whereas “Mayan” is dialect, “mahn,” bearing a squashed i , could certainly be considered an impure Slurvian form of the word.
At first I was prepared to offer “sparrow grass” (for asparagus ) as elevated Slurvian; I now retract the offer.
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