Date: Wed, 8 Nov 1995 17:24:09 -0500

From: "M. Lynne Murphy" 104LYN[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MUSE.ARTS.WITS.AC.ZA

Subject: Re: supervisor/coupon



There seems to be a perception

(around here, at least) that people who omit the glide in "figure" and "news"

are socially inferior to those who pronounce it, but that those who include

the glide in "coupon" and even "mercury" are socially inferior somehow.



to my mind, anyone who says things the way i don't say them is

socially inferior, and i've got no glide in news but do have it in

the rest. i think the attitudes are just regionocentric.



lynne



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