European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 22, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 18 the stars and stripes monday june 22,1987 columns today s crossword rec con be those colloquialisms by William Safire Fawn Hall Secretary toll. Col Oliver l. North at the National Security Council until last november appeared before the Iran Contra panel and Booster ils rating1, overnight. Linguists were immediately struck by her pronunciation. Like Many native american speakers she dropped 1he Gin recognize. Mcclon ii is not a recent development reports Fred Mish. Rex of Lex at Merriam web sir. It s recorded in Webster s third 1961 with the Boelus Mark used to indicate evidence of ils use by educated speak ers but thai pronunciation is Sigma sized by commentators on thai Means me. And other stiffs who frown on words like Ain l in formal setting. Distinguished americans who Are in the file using reckon inc include president Carter Henry Luce. Sens. Clai born Pell and Terry Sanford and now Fawn Hill. She also pronounced it Cetera this is nol recorded in the unabridged websters but the lexicographers arc picking up Many recent citations including Marvin Kalb director of a new Pren policy Center Al. Harvard s John f. Kennedy school of gov Emmonl sen. Jim Stotser of Tennessee and Julie Nixon Eisenhower who is author of the Best seller about her Mother and is the wife of David Eisenhower who is author of the Best seller about his Grandfather Elk Tolera. Elk Setera. According to the dictionary of american regional English which is a huge Success and its lexicographer. Fred Cassidy America sir James Murray is gelling the recognition he deserves. The pronunciations Elk Seinera and reckon-ize1 arc rot regionalism. They Are in fact. Very common although you would t expect to hear them from a person of High education. I would Call them general colloquialisms pronunciations thai widely occur and Are nol restricted 10 a single professor Ca Sidy Calls Elk sclera an example of Hom organic sound and then explains Homo Ganic Means made with the same speech or Gans such As the Tongue the lips Al Cetera. Homo Means same and Organus is Organ the letters p and it. For instance represent Hom organic sounds be cause they arc made in the same pan of the Mouth you would t Call and n Hom organic though because thai sounds arc made changes in pronunciation can take plate almost automatically As inc sound slips Over from one 10 inc other. These sound substitutions Are usually made for some physiological reason. Bui if you Don i hear your self speaking and arc uncritical of Obroin pronunciation professor Cassidy adds. " of cart easily slip from one 10 another of Hom organic sometimes Hom organic sounds Are added 10 words and Are known As intrusive As in Hort dial or the late cartoonist Al Capp creator of i l always used this device in dialogue among Mem Bers of despatch s Tokuro the difference is Hal an intrusive consonant adds a sound to the word. Elk Selera is an example of sound substitution not intrusive consonant because k is substituted Tor i. Not added to the word or ii would be pronounced Ekl Secra which was not what miss Hall said i was listening closely. It s Lime we knew exactly Whai we were said president Reagan mistakenly using the past tense were to parallel knew in a speech about aids and that s Why 1 support some routine test he did nol explain what routine would mean in connection with Federal testing of immigrants inmates of Federal prisons and patients at veterans hospitals but the word was Central to his approach i encourage Stales to offer Ruline i casting for those who seek marriage licenses. And i encourage Stales in require routine i casting in state and local the question immediately arose would routine mean mandatory compulsory and if so. Why did t he use one of those hard Clear words first to the Ordinary meaning of routine. Rooted in inc French Drourr. Travelled Way regular the noun was adopted into English by Samuel Butler prior to 1680 in this sentence the general business of he world tics for the most part in routines and then the noun was used attributive by modifying another noun routine task was bom in 1817 the Label not the action and the word was officially dubbed a full fledged adjective in inc Oxford English die tonary supplement in 1932 with the meaning mechanical the son of activity that drives imaginative types bananas. A frequent synonym is humdrum an irregular reduplication of Horn thai epitomizes boredom. Teen agers Slang still uses Bav ring to describe routine tasks. Is thai whal the president meant of course nol routine has gained another sense in ils adjectival state More mollify or than qualifier. The phrase routine tests is used by people going into hospitals to cover both Ordinary periodic examinations and treatment for ail ments la is a soothing phrase which seems 10 add nothing to worry about that soothing Conn Dialion is what the president and his writers sought in using a word for a policy that Means mandatory commanded or compulsory. Gary i Bauer. Inc president s Domestic policy adviser who knows what Reagan has in mind told me plainly enough that routine testing Al the Federal level does not include the right to opt opt out is an academic bureaucratic Vogue term meaning choose nol obliterating the useful distinction be tween the thoughtful choose and the impulsive opt the feeling the president and his advisers wanted to Gen across is that the mandatory i casting is to be applied m the regular course of human activity pan of what seems a norms customary usual regular process. I in migrants Are normally in std for communicable Dis eases patients being admitted 10 Federal hospitals Are regularly Given blood Lesis prisoners Are periodically checked for evidence of disease. The compulsion is not out of the Ordinary in these instances hence it can be called routine. It is doubtless mandatory but the harshness of ils unavoidably is tempered by the Assurance that ii is being done All the Lime As part of something else the Point being made by the use of the mollify ing word is Hal i tic populace is not being told 10 line up next tuesday Al noon for listing for this specific purpose or else. C new Yuk int if we two web of w w set c in . .,._. Golm. 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