Date: Wed, 4 Oct 1995 12:39:35 -0400

From: "Winfield, Laurie" lwinfield[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]RINET.HUNTON.COM

Subject: Re: green/string beans



In central Virginia, they're just "snaps"!



lwinfield[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]hunton.com



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From: American Dialect Society

To: Multiple recipients of list ADS

Subject: Re: green/string beans

Date: Wednesday, October 04, 1995 11:28AM



I have always refered to them as string beans.

Allen

maberry[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]u.washington.edu



On Wed, 4 Oct 1995, Tom Uharriet wrote:



On Tue, 3 Oct 1995, Rima & Kim McKinzey wrote:



I think this might just be a question of age - or the age of one's

parents.

Does this also apply to the string bean/green bean?



The New York Times still uses "string bean" -- one piece of evidence

that

string bean holds on in at least oe part of the Northeast.



Dan Goodman dsg[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]maroon.tc.umn.edu



It was always string beans for me in Los Angeles--especially the thin

French cut.





Tom Uharriet

utom[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]admn.712.nebo.edu