End of ADS-L Digest - 7 Feb 1994 to 8 Feb 1994

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There are 7 messages totalling 155 lines in this issue.



Topics of the day:



 1. Regional variation in BE

 2. Sluff/Slough (4)

 3. Dialect shift??

 4. Newsletter deadline



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Date:  Tue, 8 Feb 1994 21:45:56 -0700

From:  Rudy Troike <RTROIKE[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ARIZVMS.BITNET>

Subject: Re: Regional variation in BE



Peter,

    Re the principle of people noticing differences, it really first

became nationally prominent when John F.Kennedy was running for office:

everyone noticed when he said "Cuber" (except perhaps other like-lected

Bostonians and NYers), but not when he said "Cuba". When Johnson became

President, there was a joke going around in Texas (I don't know how widely

it circulated) about a lady in East Texas saying it was nice to have a man

in the White House who didn't have an accent! More folk-evidence.

    Rudy Troike