End of ADS-L Digest - 22 Nov 1997 to 23 Nov 1997 ************************************************ Subject: ADS-L Digest - 23 Nov 1997 to 24 Nov 1997 There are 29 messages totalling 918 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. whore& /hw/ 2. HOW TO TALK AMERICAN (3) 3. downloadable list 4. Meredith's English (3) 5. Re[2]: vernacular (3) 6. vernacular (2) 7. Power of silence in communication (2) 8. G-string (6) 9. Merzouri 10. "Write when you get work" (2) 11. "wh" (2) 12. Lippi-Green's Eng with an Accent -Reply 13. pragmatic change in progress? 14. Vanity Plate Speech ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 24 Nov 1997 00:46:12 -0500 From: Ron Butters Subject: whore& /hw/ These postings remind me of two things: (1). a conversation I once overheard in a gas station in Durham, NC, fifteen years ago. One local teenager says to another, "That woman over there, she's a H." Second teenager answers, "You mean she's a W." (2). one of the silliest pieces of eye-dialect I ever saw: WHO spelled W'O (in newspaper cartoon strip in the 1980s--"Seve Roper," I believe.