Date: 5/9/96 5:31 PM

To: Grant Barrett

From: Gregory J. Pulliam

My father from Hannibal, Missouri tells me of a dispute he's involved in

regarding the term out-of-pocket. He and my mother, who's from Omaha, NE=

,

use the term to mean "not being where one is supposed to be," as in "I'm

sorry we couldn't be there but we were out-of-pocket."

A friend of his uses the term to mean "out-of money." My wife and I use

the term to mean "unexpected and immediate cash" expenses.

Does anybody have any dialect region inoformation about these terms, or

other supporting or diverging uses?

Greg Pulliam

gpulliam[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]charlie.iit.edu

Illinois Institute of Technology

Chicago