Date:  Thu, 7 Mar 1996 09:49:43 -0700

From:  Rudy Troike <RTROIKE[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]CCIT.ARIZONA.EDU>

Subject: Inter-variety miscommunication



Dennis,

    Thanks for your great contribution to this rarely-documented issue.

There was a thread going on it awhile back, but it sort of disappeared.

    One of the neatest examples of cross-variety re-interpretation I

ever encountered was from a woman from Beaumont, Texas, whose last name

was Kaiser, with a typical "Confederate vowel" in the first syllable. She

went to a NCTE convention in Boston, and when she gave her name to the clerk

at the hotel registration desk, he promptly wrote it down as <Carser>!



Rudy

--Rudy Troike (rtroike[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ccit.arizona.edu)