Date: Mon, 18 Jul 1994 22:02:07 EDT

From: AAllan[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]AOL.COM

Subject: Accurayc



In the latest (June '94) issue of LANGUAGE, editor Sarah Gray Thomason has an

excellent lament and admonition about the inaccuracy of data in studies

offered for publication (pp. 409-413).

I think dialectologists too, both authors and editors, could benefit from

her strictures.

-Allan Metcalf