Date:  Wed, 6 Dec 1995 00:12:29 -0800

From:  Rima & Kim McKinzey <rkm[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]SLIP.NET>

Subject: Re: hood



>Also possibly of interest, and coming from the same

>'etnic' neighborhoods, was the pronunciation of HOOD

>with the vowel of rude; hoods were the neighborhood

>toughs and tough wannabes.

>

Growing up in NYC, hoods were as you describe them - but it was pronounced

the normal way - i.e., rhyming with good rather than food.



Rima