Date:  Thu, 9 Nov 1995 13:52:40 -0400

From:  "Dennis R. Preston" <preston[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]PILOT.MSU.EDU>

Subject: Re: supervisor/coupon



I'll say! Us Louisville kids used 'broomstick' rather than 'poker' but with

the same disdain of the high-falutin'.

Dennis Preston



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.

>

>On Wed, 8 Nov 1995, Peter McGraw wrote:

>

>> I think Bruce has hit the nail on the head about the sociolinguistic

>> aspect of /u/ vs. /ju/. ... I defy anyone to

>> use /ju/ in all applicable words in the sentence "I assume there was no

>> news of the supervisor this noon" without laughing.