Date:  Sun, 27 Feb 1994 11:45:28 -0500

From:  Martha Howard <UN106005[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]WVNVAXA.WVNET.EDU>

Subject: Prescriptivist horror stories



Can you believe that in the early 1930's when I was in fourth grade, I had

a home economics (called cooking then) teacher who insisted that we prepare

a daily ( I am going to use eye dialect --given up on transcribing phonetically

 e mail) maynew? I still hate that word and I'm not really sure about cooking.