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Today’s Bizarro:

(medical) marinara as a pun on (medical) marijuana: same prosody (double trochee), same first syllable, same final schwa. Then there’s Mrs. Rotini, the (literal) pasta woman, suitable for treating with marinara sauce.

Previous postings on this blog. First on marinara sauce, which is understood differently in different places:

☛ Semantic change on the menu of 4/3/10:

Semantic change on the menu

section 2 on marinara sauce

☛ More on marinara sauce of 4/10/10:

More on marinara sauce

expansion of the previous

Then on rotini:

☛ Gay spaghetti of 7/6/11:

Gay spaghetti

“screw pasta”: rotini and fusilli

☛ Charles Barsotti of 6/22/14:

Charles Barsotti

with comments on fusilli and rotini

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