From: lazlo polykoff
Category: Amis
Date: 6/30/99
Time: 7:44:09 PM
Remote Name: 129.219.247.97
KEITH TALENT SEZ: "Kim Twemlow's lifestyle! Still strolling about in his white shoes. Even up here on the ceiling there were lights of cars. The house, the circular drive, and selected guests for luncheon. Why, Cymphia. Amphea! Generally find a glass of chapmange quite refreshing at this hour. Smampha. Corimphia! My dear Aramimpha!"
KINGSLEY AMIS SEZ: "*assimilation*. Making one sound more like another, usually the one that follows. For instance, the word *impossible* started life as a combination of two words of which the first was *in* meaning *not*, but the *n* became *m* by assimilation. Uneducated speech in London and elsewhere is full of assimilations, and this tendency is probably on the increase. I cannot clearly remember hearing somebody talk about *a dime breed* (meaning 'a dying breed') more than ten or twenty years ago. We also reportedly have the proper names *Samamfa* (Samantha) and *Scumforpe* (Scunthorpe)."