Date:  Mon, 6 Jan 1997 11:35:19 -0500
From:  Wayne Glowka <wglowka[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MAIL.GAC.PEACHNET.EDU>
Subject: Re: WOTY

>FYI: the "word of the year" was mentioned on WCBS AM
>over the weekend, I think Saturday morning. (Oh, that's
>New York City, 880 on the AM dial.) They cited it as
>"soccer mom" and also mentioned "most controversial"
>being "Ebonics." I was pleased to hear the mention on
>a radio station that a lot of people listen to; I had
>a pleasant flash of "that's us."
>
>Vicki Rosenzweig

I had on a Cincinnati AM station with CBS news on Saturday night as I
plowed through the piney woods of Georgia; but when CBS news took a break
for a commercial, the station lost its CBS signal and went back to easy
listening tunes for people older than I am. I never got to hear about us
on CBS.

Thanks,



Wayne Glowka
Professor of English
Director of Research and Graduate Student Services
Georgia College & State University
Milledgeville, GA 31061
912-453-4222
FAX: 912-454-0873
Office: Arts & Sciences 3-04
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