End of ADS-L Digest - 7 Jul 1997 to 8 Jul 1997 ********************************************** Subject: ADS-L Digest - 8 Jul 1997 to 9 Jul 1997 There are 14 messages totalling 339 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. Bleach (3) 2. nasal flaps? (4) 3. "smelt" 4. Golden Oldies (2) 5. clorox or whatever (3) 6. RE>Re: Golden Oldies ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 9 Jul 1997 06:26:34 -0400 From: "M. Lynne Murphy" <104lyn[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MUSE.ARTS.WITS.AC.ZA> Subject: Re: Bleach > I found that interesting. You might expect to hear "smelt" somewhere back > in the hills, but not from the mouth of an obviously middle class woman in > a commercial made for national distribution. Yet it had to be intentional. i dunno, i'd say 'smelt'. perhaps i've just been living among the britishy-speaking for too long, though. lynne ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- M. Lynne Murphy, Senior Lecturer Department of Linguistics phone: (+27-11)716-2340 University of the Witwatersrand fax: (+27-11)716-4199 Johannesburg 2050 e-mail: 104lyn[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]muse.arts.wits.ac.za SOUTH AFRICA