'Dinah and Oenone Lendrim.' 'I-now-ny? What the fuck kind of name's that?' 'Greek mythological.' Sam smiled, knowing Gibbs would assume he knew this because his father was Greek. 'She's Nonie for all practical purposes. She and her sister Dinah are the children of Sharon Lendrim.'

I wouldn't let him. When you were a boy in your part of the country, and other boys told tales about you, what did you do with them? Whaled 'em like time, Captin', answered the man; and if ye'll only shet yer eyes to 't, I'll whale him. I can't allow such things in the prison, said the Captain; and besides, the fellow will be lame for a fortnight, and wouldn't be a match for you in that condition. Let him get limber, and then, if you don't whale him, I'll make you walk the ladder for a month. The result was, the conscript officer received a sound thrashing; and did not commit another act worthy of punishment for a week.

One was /au/-monophthongisation, described earlier in Chapter 2, while the second was the so-called low-back merger (LBM), also referred to as the cot–caught merger because words in these two classes are pronounced the same and speakers cannot hear any small differences in their pronunciation, even when they are present.

Lifer karma, that's what it was, and I'd apparently accumulated a metric shitload of it.