Date:  Thu, 9 May 1996 08:41:37 EDT

From:  Larry Horn <LHORN[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]YALEVM.CIS.YALE.EDU>

Subject: Re: packy?



To support Alice's intuition, I can confirm that 'package store' is standard

here but 'packy' inextant. Of course, it's hard to know that a form REALLY

doesn't occur, but I've never encountered it in 15 years in the same South-

Central Connecticut regional area as Alice's.  I also don't remember 'packy'

from a couple of years spent in Mass. in the '70's, but I do recall that

'package store' is somehow MORE standard there than here, although here it's

used interchangeably with liquor store. People I know always opt for the latter

unregional variant.  Of course not all liquor stores are package stores:

Warehouse Liquors, Liquor Land, etc.--the ones that are more like supermarkets

--are not package stores (much less packies). Oh, if you were wondering, we

don't call them 'lickies' either.



Larry