Date: Mon, 16 May 1994 09:27:22 EDT
From: Wayne Glowka wglowka[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MAIL.GAC.PEACHNET.EDU
Subject: Re: genitive in names of businesses
Dear Folks,
I spent the weekend in Boaz, Alabama, in order to go to a family
reunion on my wife's side in Martling, just a chug down and up the mountain
from Albertville. Upon arrival in Martling--yeah, in the first minute of
my sojourn--a Martling native in her 80's or so announced that so-and-so
couldn't come to the reunion because she had to work at "Wal-Mark's" (/k/
is what I heard) (I was told that all the really old women there had not
been allowed to go to school). Within the next ten minutes, I heard a
women in her sixties--a blood relative--say that she spends a lot of time
in "Wal-Mart's."
There were also a lot of other amazing things to listen to. For a
while, I had trouble understanding what was being said to me until I
figured out the current state of the vowel shift in Martling.
Wayne Glowka
Professor of English
Georgia College
Milledgeville, GA 31061
912-453-4222
wglowka[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]mail.gac.peachnet.edu