Hol don

Language Log 2019-03-08

Summary:

This morning while shaving, as I was listening to the radio around 7:30 a.m., I heard a medley of songs by three artists, all with the same title:  "Hold on".  But a funny thing happened in all three of these renditions:  whenever the singer pronounced the title phrase, it always came out as "hol don", […]

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http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=42037

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Authors:

Victor Mair

Date tagged:

03/08/2019, 10:05

Date published:

03/08/2019, 09:39