Date: Wed, 9 Jul 1997 10:59:02 -0400

From: Brenda Lester brenles[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]CODY.GAC.PEACHNET.EDU

Subject: Re: Bleach



My _American Heritage Dictionary_ has smelt as the pass tense of smell.



On Tue, 8 Jul 1997, Duane Campbell wrote:



A commercial just flashed past for Chlorox bleach. Several women (sexist)

commenting on the smell of bleach. One asks rhetorically, "Would I use more

if it smelt better?"



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.





Duane Campbell dcamp[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]epix.net

http://www.epix.net/~dcamp/