Date: Tue, 31 May 1994 00:03:38 CST

From: Luanne von Schneidemesser lvonschn[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]FACSTAFF.WISC.EDU

Subject: truce terms



Truce terms I happen to have been looking at recently in DARE's

database. The most frequent term, 332 informants, is time out,

which while scattered throughout most of the country is most

frequent east of the Mississippi River. Complementing this is

the next most frequent response, 265 informants, king's ex, a

beautiful map which will appear in vol. 3, showing responses in

Ohio, Illinois, the Mississippi Valley, and west of this -- the

Atlantic coast is almost completely without this response. The

next most frequent responses are time (83), times out (56), times

(53), king's (23), and free (11).

Interestingly, my children, aged 10 and 12, use a term not given

by DARE informants, namely T's. So my question is, is use of the

responses given by DARE informants changing? How about other

children you know -- do they fit in to the above?

I might add that my kids thought king's ex, the term I grew up

with in Kansas which they had never heard until I used it about a

year ago, was hilarious!!



Luanne



Luanne von Schneidemesser, 608-263-2748

DARE, 6129 Helen C. White Hall, 600 North Park, Madison, WI 53706