Date:  Tue, 5 Aug 1997 21:31:07 -0400
From:  Gregory {Greg} Downing <downingg[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]IS2.NYU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Informants

To add to the note copied below -- I attended "ASL" (L for London) together
with two siblings from 1972-74, though I don't know if you are looking for
Americans (Michiganders) exposed to British English (and vice versa) from
*that* far in the past.... I had the virtue and/or vice of being interested
at that period in language....

Many of the American kids attending ASL at that time were really "right off
the boat" -- midwesterners and southerners with no prior exposure to British
English at all, whose fathers were transferred there for a few years to work
for multinationals or in North Sea oil or the like. It was quite a
language-shock for a lot of them (leaving the culture-shock aside).

Greg Downing/NYU

At 09:20 PM 8/5/97 -0400, you wrote:
>Dear Aaron,
>
>I suggest you contact the American School in St. John's Wood, London NW8,
>or another similar establishment in Cobham, Surrey -- you'll find American
>families thicker than flies at a Methodist picnic.
>
>Orin Hargraves
>

Greg Downing/NYU, at greg.downing[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]nyu.edu or downingg[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]is2.nyu.edu