Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1996 08:31:53 -0400

From: "Dale F.Coye" CoyeCFAT[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]AOL.COM

Subject: Re: Chicago pronc



Does anyone have an opinion about /sh/ vs. /ch/ in terms of SAE? The test I

use in judging "Standard American English" is: would I correct a foreign

speaker if he or she used a given form. In this case I would be inclined

(Mayor Daley notwithstanding) to tell a foreigner that virtually all

well-educated Americans use /sh/ and you should too. To me /ch/ is so rarely

heard it would be like using it in "Michigan." So I guess I'm asking Tom

Creswell-- do the /ch/ speakers exist in the well-educated classes of

Chicago, too?



Dale Coye

the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching

Princeton, NJ