Date:  Mon, 11 Dec 1995 08:48:01 CST

From:  "Donald M. Lance" <ENGDL[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MIZZOU1.MISSOURI.EDU>

Subject: Re: name's the same



Lest someone shouldmisunderstand Rudy's plea for us to rewrite phonological

history so that future generations won't confuse Don and Dawn, thereby

revealing a lower level of intelligence, we should recall all the

variant spellings we see in the OED and elsewhere when we look up words

spelled with o and a and digraphs employing these two vowel letters. Never

ever was there uniformity in the pronunciations of these items. Maybe

that's why English speakers have been involved in so many wars -- such

matters lead to so much frustration, never being able to be sure we

understand each other because of phonology. Rudy is known to engage in

apico-buccal gestures on occasion, you know.    DMLance