Date: Wed, 8 Nov 1995 11:19:21 -0800

From: Peter McGraw pmcgraw[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]CALVIN.LINFIELD.EDU

Subject: Re: RhetORic



That's funny. Yesterday I heard an interview on NPR's "All Things

Considered" with a participant in the recent African American Million-Man

March in Washington. Unfortunately I don't remember where the interviewee

was from, but he spoke several times about toning down, or not getting

carried away by, the "rhetic."



Peter McGraw

Linfield College

McMinnville, OR



On Wed, 8 Nov 1995, Wayne Glowka wrote:



On a quick ride to the Wal-Mart to get some anti-freeze a minute ago, I

heard a caller from Wisconsin (I believe) tell Rush Limbaugh something

about liberal rhetORic, with stress on the second syllable. Is this

pronunciation common up yonder or is it an attempt at saying a word read

but never heard?





Wayne Glowka

Professor of English

Director of Research and Graduate Student Services

Georgia College

Milledgeville, GA 31061

912-453-4222

wglowka[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]mail.gac.peachnet.edu