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