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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