End of ADS-L Digest - 1 Mar 1994 to 2 Mar 1994 ********************************************** There are 17 messages totalling 441 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. attitude & prescription 2. POSTERS (2) 3. Local pron. of toponyms (2) 4. local locality pronunciations (2) 5. Something old, something new 6. attitude & prescription:CORRECTION--Sorry 7. bad hair day (2) 8. Family in the gay sense (2) 9. 10. Bounced Mail 11. A Noun Is a Word After a Determiner 12. Local pronunciations of toponyms ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 2 Mar 1994 22:38:18 -0700 From: Rudy Troike Subject: Re: attitude & prescription I threw it out recently because the tapes to go with it were missing, but there are a number of books put out by people in Speech on "dialect pronunciation" as guides for actors and stage directors to train people. Some of the material in C.M. Wise's long-used work was for this purpose. Rudy Troike