Date: Sat, 27 Jan 1996 00:00:19 -0700

From: Rudy Troike RTROIKE[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]CCIT.ARIZONA.EDU

Subject: Re: chintsy



I checked with a few folks around the office today. One from West Va.

natively knew only chinchy ; another from NJ (also an "on line" speaker)

uses chinchy for people, chintzy for things (confirming an earlier

self-report by a New Englander: Virginia Clark, what do your students say?);

a third, from California, somewhat uncertainly recognized chinchy for things

and chintzy for people, a reversal of the previous. This might fit with

Tom's identification of the latter as primary for the intermontane West.



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