Date:  Fri, 31 Dec 1993 15:43:15 -0500

From:  "David Bergdahl (614) 593-2783" <BERGDAHL[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]OUACCVMB.BITNET>

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Another anecdote on the same theme as Rudy Troike's--I once had a

student linger after class and ask me if she sounded like a New Yorker.

Not to my NY ears I told her after asking her to pronounce a few

diagnostic terms, e.g. bottle of beer, word choice, &c. But she was not

relieved.  From Dayton OH and Jewish, her dorm-mates said she sounded

like a New Yorker as a code-form for "she looked like a N. Y. Jew"

rather than an Ohioan.