Date:  Mon, 28 Mar 1994 16:29:39 -0600

From:  Charles F Juengling-2 <juen0001[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]GOLD.TC.UMN.EDU>

Subject: Re: Wisconsin accent



On Mon, 28 Mar 1994 mftcf%UXA.ECN.BGU.EDU[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]vm1.spcs.umn.edu wrote:



> 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



SWINE !!!  I can hardly believe that McDavid would have uttered such

rubbish. It's even harder to believe that someone would write it on the

LIST. If it's a joke, it's been lost on me. I hope I never see it again

on ADS-L.

CFJ