Date:  Mon, 28 Mar 1994 10:18:48 -0800

From:  Roger Vanderveen <rvander[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ICHIPS.INTEL.COM>

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.)



If this is meant to be a politically-correct joke, then I am surprised that no

one bothered to find a way to insert an abbreviation for the word "male" in

the acronym.



If it's not, then I think it's one of the most stupid, most un-professional

terms ever invented.





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Roger Vanderveen                       Intel Corporation

Hillsboro, OR                   Take me down to Jones's farm

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