Date: Sun, 24 Apr 1994 12:17:09 EST
From: "Nancy C. Elliott" ELLIOTTN[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]UCS.INDIANA.EDU
Subject: Not in Kansas
All the anecdotes make me want to add a couple of my own. Soon after we
were married, my Michigander husband was cooking dinner and asked me for
a "calendar." I was puzzled and told him there was one hanging on the
wall in the bedroom. His confused look made me realize that he really
wanted a colander. Sometime later this Detroiter mentioned needing to
wear a "salad-colored" shirt. I looked down at the salad I was eating
and thought 'green with litle bits of orange and purple??' Then it
dawned on me that he needed a solid-colored shirt. I'm getting used to
his 'Great Lakes Vowel Shift' pronunciations. I know now that Ellen is
a man's name.
By the way, when I was a kid in Kansas I always thought it was "Toto" with
a 't'.
Nancy Elliott
Indiana University