End of ADS-L Digest - 22 Nov 1997 to 23 Nov 1997
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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

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Date:  Mon, 24 Nov 1997 00:46:12 -0500
From:  Ron Butters <RonButters[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]AOL.COM>
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.