Date:    Mon, 23 Mar 1998 11:03:00 -0500
<br>From:    Susan-Marie Harrington  sharrin[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]IUPUI.EDU 
<br>Subject: Re: "white coffee"
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<br>I grew up in NY, ordering "regular coffee," meaning coffee with milk and
<br>sugar.  My father mentioned this term on the phone last night, actually,
<br>and I asked him some more about it, and he said that these days he
<br>sometimes hears people ordering "regular coffee with sugar" (which he
<br>thinks is redundant" or "regular coffee without sugar" (which he said
<br>"isn't really a regular coffee, but they do get what they want").
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<br>Since he'd raised some lexical issues, I took the opportunity to ask him
<br>about chaise lounges (which we prounounced to rhyme with Shays,
<br>prounouncing the initial sound as in chocolate).  While I use the term to
<br>mean any patio furniture on which I can stretch out my legs, he uses
<br>"lounge chair" for the folding kind and "chaise lounge" for the wrought
<br>iron kind, or any non-folding lounge chair.
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<br>Susanmarie Harrington                                sharrin[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]iupui.edu
<br>Indiana University-Purdue University,Indianapolis    (317) 278-1153
<br>Dept. of English, 425 University Boulevard           fax: (317) 274-2347
<br>Indianapolis IN 46202-5140
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