Date: Fri, 10 Nov 1995 09:51:25 -0500

From: Ronald Butters amspeech[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ACPUB.DUKE.EDU

Subject: Re: TUNE, DUKE, NOON NEWS, ETC.



For those of you who might want actually to be so knarly as to READ

something in an

old-fashioned BOOK-like device concerning variability in

initial [+consonant]([y])[u] words in English, I recommend Ann Pitts's,

"Flip-Flop Prestige in American TUNE, DUKE, and NEWS," in AMERICAN SPEECH

61.2 (Summer 1986), 130-38. Dr. Pitts actually has done some research on

this question!