Date:  Thu, 9 Nov 1995 11:45:32 -0600

From:  Katherine Catmull <kate[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]BGA.COM>

Subject: Re: supervisor/coupon



On Thu, 9 Nov 1995, Dan Moonhawk Alford wrote:



> As long as we're talking sociolinguistic judgements, my wife refers to

> the lect that would use /ju/ in all the words of the last sentence below

> by the technical linguistics phrase "poker-up-the-ass English" -- thus

> showing that sociolinguistic judgements are not ALWAYS against just

> lower-class dialects.



And I would refer it as "Received British Pronunication." Perhaps it's

the association with the RP liquid u that gives such pronunciations in

America a social lift, as well as a "poker-up-the-ass" quality.



Kate Catmull      kate[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]bga.com