Date: Mon, 5 Feb 1996 00:58:46 -0700
From: Rudy Troike RTROIKE[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]CCIT.ARIZONA.EDU
Subject: Re: Urbana-Champaign
Dennis--
I did not mention it, but Muriel and I lived in Urbana, too (since
we still own our house there, we are at least still taxpayers). Ron Cowan
also lives in Urbana, as do C. C. Cheng and Eyamba Bokamba. You did not
mention on which side of the great divide you live.
On a different tack, Allan Walker Read was doing a paper a few years
ago on names for people from various places, and contacted me to find out
what the local nomenclature was there (here in Tucson, for example, one sees
"Tucsonans" mentioned frequently in the newspaper, as "Chicagoans" are in
Chicago). I informally surveyed a number of long-time residents and natives,
and even put in a letter to the editor soliciting information, but no one
had a name for a person from either community, or even seemed to feel a
lexical gap.
--Rudy Troike (rtroike[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ccit.arizona.edu)