Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 14:35:42 PST

From: ba GRADMA[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]UVVM.UVIC.CA

Subject: Re: one as a pronoun?



And what, pray tell, is wrong with VAHZ for "vase"? And if you do prefer the

EH vowel, then is the final consonant S or Z (that's "zed," of course!)?

One of my students once told me that the line in her family was that if it

cost more than $50.00 (Canadian), it was a VAHZ, otherwise, a VEHZ.

(Sorry this is so late a reply - I'm just catching up after Reading Break, when

I obviously didn't!)



Barbara Harris

University of Victoria

(British Columbia, that is)