Date:  Mon, 28 Mar 1994 10:45:29 -0600

From:  mftcf[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]UXA.ECN.BGU.EDU

Subject: Re: Wisconsin accent



Thanks to David Johns for a good account of non-English influence.

Please, though, let's don't use the term "General American." I like

better Raven McDavid's acronym, SWINE, for "STandard White Inland

Northern English." It IS a regional dialect, promoted by John Kenyon

as GA, which he later admitted was the pronunciation of the Cleveland area

(obviously he meant white niddle-class Cleveland.)



Tim Frazer