Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 02:21:37 -0400

From: "Barry A. Popik" Bapopik[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]AOL.COM

Subject: PhillySpeak; Hoagies; Antidentite



PHILLYSPEAK



I was in Philadelphia and found these letters in the Philadelphia City

Paper, August 29-September 4, 1997, page 4, col. 2:



PHILLY MISSPEAK

One minor error in an otherwise splendid article ("PhillySpeak," Aug.

15): The quote about "anymore" being "a South Philadelphia barbarism" is most

certainly from Red SMITH, not Red Barber. To the best of my knowledge, Red

Barber worked neither in newspapers nor in Philadelphia; Red Smith covered

sports for the Philadelphia _Record_ from 1936 to 1945.

Andrew Milner

Bryn Mawr

ajm[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]bbs.cpcn.com



As a Philadelphia-born Murray with a mother named Mary, and who once

dated a Merry, your piece on how Philadelphia speaks "spoke" to me.

Reminded me of how my dad pronounced certain words. For instance, there

was one Japanese cat he called a Tay-Ota.

Nice job, fella.

Murray Dubin

South Philadelphia



The City Paper is at http://www.citypaper.com. I'll try to get the

article.



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