Date:  Mon, 13 Dec 1993 19:29:50 EST

From:  Robert Kelly <kelly[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]LEVY.BARD.EDU>

Subject: Re: Ages and Centuries



I assume modren is a hypercorrection, based on the (in the old days) much-

to-be-avoided pronunciation childern. Especially since your remembered

informant was a hypercorrecter. (I throw out my first guess, that she was

hearing French moderne ---once a common label and title--- as an iamb, and

giving it the salon/saloon treatment, with smoothing.)



rk