End of ADS-L Digest - 2 Oct 1995 to 3 Oct 1995

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There are 61 messages totalling 1465 lines in this issue.



Topics of the day:



 1. green/string beans (11)

 2. ?meaning (fwd)

 3. Terminology of unexcused absences/ and bar time.

 4. pronunciation note (6)

 5. phonetic spelling in high places -Reply

 6. phonetics of dialects (4)

 7. Lexical choice? (19)

 8. lexical choice

 9. metric or ... (3)

 10. Lexical choice? -Reply

 11. Bounced Mail

 12. icebox and upstate (4)

 13. Re(2): metric or ...

 14. pop/green/string beans (2)

 15. albeit

 16. Snapping Beans and Hulling Peas

 17. Lexical choice/string beans

 18. Switched Candy Names

 19. Upstate



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Date:  Tue, 3 Oct 1995 18:58:54 -0500

From:  Daniel S Goodman <dsg[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MAROON.TC.UMN.EDU>

Subject: Re: green/string beans



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