Word: subjeck
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...DeEr ReedER: ONE of The AmAZIN FACKS abouT the RITEr of this bOOK is he nose a lil SUMPthin $$$$$$ ABOut The SUBjeck he writ ABOut. He was a skOOL DRop-oUT." So begins the latest federal literature out of Sargent Shriver's Office of Economic Opportunity-a comic book called Li'l Abner and the Creatures from Drop-Outer Space. Cartoonist Al Capp, 55, plucks Li'l Abner out of Dogpatch, the world's most bizarre poverty pocket, installs him as a "brilliant young technician with a big job, and even bigger feet, who befriends Danny...
...young people, U.S.-born and schooled, don't use the old folks' "regelleh." They say "regella." Their mistakes belong not to Yiddish, but to The Bronx: omitted consonants ("lease" for least, "oney" for only, "finey" for finally, "subjeck" for subject); misconceptions ("grain matter" for grey matter) ; transpositions ("dastric" for drastic); mixed metaphors ("Mac Fine, honestly, if there's any figgers arounn, your nose is bound to be knee-deep in them...
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