Date:  Wed, 8 Nov 1995 01:53:14 -0500

From:  SETH <crissiet[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]IPOF.FLA.NET>

Subject: Re: supervisor/coupon



Kathleen O'Neill wrote:



>I've never heard /sju/ in "supervisor" either, but the

>issue calls to mind a discussion I recently had with

>some friends of mine...



I often used the phrase "friends of mine" until an erudite friend

explained that "of mine" made the phrase redundant. I argued half-heartedly

that they could have been friends of someone else, but came to accept

the hypothesis and dropped the prepositional phrase. What say you all?



Seth Sklarey