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WCDT Strips 3596-3600 (23rd October - 27th October 2017)
TheEvilDog:
It might surprise you to learn that "welp" is over 70 years old, have been used as a synonym for the interjection "Well". But it first came up in a scholarly article from 1946, "Thoughts on 'Yep' and 'Nope'", by Dwight Bolinger.
Welp is a word we've been using for decades, even if we're not actually hearing it as we're spelling it. Its only with the rise of social media that we're seeing more usage of it.
JoeCovenant:
--- Quote from: Castlerook on 30 Oct 2017, 05:35 ---It might surprise you to learn that "welp" is over 70 years old, have been used as a synonym for the interjection "Well". But it first came up in a scholarly article from 1946, "Thoughts on 'Yep' and 'Nope'", by Dwight Bolinger.
Welp is a word we've been using for decades, even if we're not actually hearing it as we're spelling it. Its only with the rise of social media that we're seeing more usage of it.
--- End quote ---
Is this an American thing?
TheEvilDog:
No, its a language thing, as they are wont to do.
JoeCovenant:
--- Quote from: Castlerook on 30 Oct 2017, 05:39 ---No, its a language thing, as they are wont to do.
--- End quote ---
Okay then, let's be pedants...
Allow me to rephrase.
Is this an 'American Language' thing?
"Welp" is not in any dictionary I own...
(Actually.. I do have a MASSIVE 'Websters' in my loft... so that last sentence might not be entirely correct.)
(Although... Miriam-Webster online does NOT contain "welp"...
Ahh... the link..
"Dwight L. Bolinger - American Speech"
So, 'Yep'... seems it IS an American thing.
The entire premise for the "unfinished p" certainly does not occur in Scottish speech.
(Considering that Scots *Yes* is AYE which hardly lends itself to a 'unfinished' plosive of any kind.)
I also doubt is gets much shrift in 'Classic' English as sibilants tend to be well pronounced - again, no P at the end of yes.
Far be it for me to cast nasturtiums on an entire country's mode of speech.. but it reads like an excuse for lazily slurring one's words than anything else.
An "unfinished p" because one closes one's mouth at the end of a word???
Nah.
TheEvilDog:
Well if you want to be a pedant.
I meant that languages are constantly evolving.
But if you really want to read something, try this.
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