MDDM23: A Curious Accent

[Dave Monroe]

"It faced me...its ominous Beak crank'd open...it
quack'd, its eye holding a certain gleam, and began to
speak, in a curious Accent, inflected heavily with
linguo-beccal Fricatives, issuing in a fine Mist of
some digestive Liquid, upon pure faith in whose
harmlessness I was obliged to proceed.
   "'So,' spray'd the Duck,--" (M&D, Ch. 37, p. 375)

Main Entry: fric·a·tive 
Pronunciation: 'fri-k&-tiv
Function: noun
Etymology: Latin fricatus, past participle of fricare
Date: 1863
: a consonant characterized by frictional passage of
the expired breath through a narrowing at some point
in the vocal tract
- fricative adjective

Either ...

http://disney.go.com/disneyatoz/archives/characterstandard/donald/donald.html

http://stp.ling.uu.se/~starback/dcml/chars/donald.html

Or ...

http://looneytunes.warnerbros.com/stars_of_the_show/daffy_duck/daffy_story.html

http://www.cartoonnetwork.com/DAFFY/

Or both ...

http://www.nitpickers.com/movies/nitpicks/14933.html

http://www.snopes2.com/disney/films/donald.htm

And ...

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