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