Date:  Mon, 30 Jan 1995 21:56:23 -0600

From:  Katherine Catmull <kate[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]BGA.COM>

Subject: Re: /buku/



At 6:58 PM 1/30/95 -0500, Cathy C. Bodin wrote:

>   /buku/ is definitely not Cajun English; I have never heard it from

>a French speaker of any social dialect but instead from Anglos (such as

>people of Cajun extraction who speak English) or transplants who move to

>the fringe of the dialect area,



My Cajun husband says the same thing. In fact I have only ever heard

/bukuz/ from my Minnesota-Irish mother.



Kate Catmull          kate[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]bga.com