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vijayjohn wrote:Wait, is that where the slur comes from? From raccoon?
[Short for RACCOON. Sense 2, perhaps after Zip Coon, an African American character (depicted as an upstart freeman) in the song “Zip Coon” frequently sung in 19th-century blackface minstrel shows (the character perhaps being so named in reference to the black facial mask of the raccoon and to the practice of hunting and eating raccoons frequently mentioned in minstrel show songs), possibly influenced by 19th-century slang coon, rural white American (often one of modest means and opposed to the slave-owning Southern establishment), fellow, so called in reference to the association of coonskin with American frontiersmen.]
Gormur wrote:Quell must be rare enough that I've never heard it or seen it outside a dictionary. It seems like it could be used to refer to animals but I'm not sure
linguoboy wrote:Gormur wrote:Quell must be rare enough that I've never heard it or seen it outside a dictionary. It seems like it could be used to refer to animals but I'm not sure
In my experience, only "unrest" and "uprisings" get "quelled".
Gormur wrote:Is it me or would quell and quail be homophones? I'm still figuring out IPA
May be a loaded question because of dialects. My judgment tells me they're homophones but I'm just curious
Ah ok. That's what I'd say too.Linguaphile wrote:Gormur wrote:Is it me or would quell and quail be homophones? I'm still figuring out IPA
May be a loaded question because of dialects. My judgment tells me they're homophones but I'm just curious
They aren't for me. The vowel in quell is [ɛ] and in quail it is [eɪ].
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