Date: Thu, 5 Oct 1995 10:59:10 -0500

From: EJOHNSON[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MSUVX2.MEMPHIS.EDU

Subject: Re: Lexical choice?



True, that's one of the drawbacks of them learning how to dress and undress

themselves. Mine does it several times a day. But it takes a lot of those

little clothes to fill up the basket.



I always say do the laundry.



b. 1959 Atlanta, GA



Ellen Johnson ejohnson[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]cc.memphis.edu



From: IN%"ADS-L[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]uga.cc.uga.edu" "American Dialect Society" 4-OCT-1995 09:26:13.17

Subj: RE: Lexical choice?



What do you mean "today"? Isn't it "everday"? We have a four-year-old and a

five-and-a-half-year-old in the house!



Today I have to do the laundry. (That's the one I usually use.)



However, I can also say:



Today I have to do the wash. (I think that's what my mom would have said.

She was born 1908 in s.w. Wisconsin.)



Regards,

David K. Barnhart

Barnhart[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]Highlands.com