word chic
where does the word chic come as in the use, "she is a chic"?Is it a slang of the slang for Chic, as in fashionable?
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No. The usual spelling is chick - a diminutive of 'chicken' - used as a term of endearment and synonymous with child since the Middle English period; a known synonym for "a young woman" since the...
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The confusion over pronunciation probably comes from Chic jeans, deliberately mispronounced "chick."
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I know several people (age 50+) who pronounce Target (US chain) as "tar-JE". Also MARshall's (regional chain) as "mar-SHALLS"; same cod French, but not quite so blatant.I bet there's lots more in...
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OK, a *few* are starting to come back. Most of them involving adding French pronounciation where it doesn't belong, or stripping it from words where it does."Soy-vey, chick and da boner" springs to...
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*He intentionally mispronounces dozens of words. And he has been campaigning for several years now to make "Algore" one word.* (WG)One can see the sense in this. The MW definition of algorithm talks...
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Also Roy Rogers (a fast food chain) as /roi rojere/.These are different than other French mispronunciations. In these cases it's a jocular mispronunciation based on class. You change the name of a...
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