the word: wut?
krunkstinphlan
to remember seeing it used somewhere, in a similar context to "that"
as a connector of two phrases, like:
These are the flowers that i have.
These are the flowers wut i have.
am i dreaming?
Mark Wallace
"krunkstinphlan" <homel...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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I've never heard of it. Ask in a Scrabble group; they'll know.
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I am unable to report on your state of consciousness.
"What" is used in some dialects as a relative pronoun meaning the
same thing as "that." In some dialects "what" is pronounced "wut."
So it is possible that some author, attempting to reproduce the
grammar and sound of some dialect of English, wrote something like
"These are the flowers wut I have." The sentence is, however,
non-standard, and you should say and write "flowers that I have."
Or just "flowers I have."
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Eh, wut?
Mason Barge
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No, I think you probably read "Pygmalion" at some point.
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Robert Lieblich
>
> On 5 Apr 2002 13:21:32 -0800, homel...@hotmail.com (krunkstinphlan)
> wrote:
>
> >is this an english word? i can't find it in a dictionary, but i seem
> >to remember seeing it used somewhere, in a similar context to "that"
> >as a connector of two phrases, like:
> >
> >These are the flowers that i have.
> >These are the flowers wut i have.
> >
> >am i dreaming?
>
> No, I think you probably read "Pygmalion" at some point.
The version of Pygmalion (or at least the one I found) on-line has
"what," not "wut." <http://www.bartleby.com/138/1.html>. Of
course, it's out of copyright, so anyone can do with it whatever
they want.
I read it a long time ago, but I don't remember "wut" in that
edition either.
Well, no matter, Shaw *should* have spelled it "wut."
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Bob Lieblich
Say wut?
Odysseus
>
> "What" is used in some dialects as a relative pronoun meaning the
> same thing as "that." In some dialects "what" is pronounced "wut."
> So it is possible that some author, attempting to reproduce the
> grammar and sound of some dialect of English, wrote something like
> "These are the flowers wut I have." The sentence is, however,
> non-standard, and you should say and write "flowers that I have."
> Or just "flowers I have."
>
It has the same vowel as "woss-", as in "wossname".
--Odysseus
krunkstinphlan
thanks everyone!!