End of ADS-L Digest - 29 Jan 1995 to 30 Jan 1995

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There are 18 messages totalling 430 lines in this issue.



Topics of the day:



 1. "What kind of coke do you want?"

 2. "bookoo" (3)

 3. Boston accent (4)

 4. Spamming Santa (2)

 5. Possessive Marker

 6. manuscripts invited

 7. Beaucoup pre-WWII

 8. French Question

 9. hmm.. what's cajun English, then? (3)

 10. 'and them'



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Date:  Tue, 31 Jan 1995 02:43:11 CST

From:  "Donald M. Lance" <ENGDL[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MIZZOU1.BITNET>

Subject: Re: "What kind of coke do you want?"



The plotting I've done of soda / pop has shown unique distributions, i.e.,

not like Kurathian distributions. In MO, WI, and MI the isogloss goes

north-south down the middle of the state, with 'pop' to the west of the

line. I didn't have enough dope on 'coke' to find isoglosses. KC is

'pop' territory and StL is 'soda'. And 'soda pop', in some tabulating I did

about fifteen years ago, occurs down the middle along the soda / pop

isogloss. Some day I'll dig out the old qtnrs and tabulate some more.

     DMLance