Date:  Mon, 10 Apr 1995 19:11:00 -0400

From:  "Connie C. Eble" <cceble[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]EMAIL.UNC.EDU>

Subject: Re: zinc



 I know that my grandmother--a life-long New Orleanian with no French

ancestry--used to say zinc, because we used to tease her about it. My

memory is that it could refer to the basin itself or to the counter

surrounding it--which is semantically the same as sink is for me.



 Connie Eble

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

cceble[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]email.unc.edu