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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