Date: Fri, 9 Dec 1994 10:01:29 CST

From: salikoko mufwene mufw[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MIDWAY.UCHICAGO.EDU

Subject: Re: boot and bonnet



In Message Fri, 9 Dec 1994 10:14:33 EST,

LEE A ADAMS laadam01[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]msuacad.morehead-st.edu writes:



Has anybody ever heard of boot or bonnet as refered to a car? It is a trunck

and under the hood area.



In an Introduction to Linguistics video produced at the University of

Minnesota, featuring George Yule (then on their faculty--around 1983), these

are some of the lexical examples discussed to highlight differences between

British and American English.

Sali.

Salikoko S. Mufwene

University of Chicago

Dept. of Linguistics

1010 East 59th Street

Chicago, IL 60637

s-mufwene[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]uchicago.edu

312-702-8531; fax: 312-702-9861