Date:  Fri, 13 Oct 1995 08:08:06 -0400

From:  Wayne Glowka <wglowka[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MAIL.GAC.PEACHNET.EDU>

Subject: Re: mrs/miz'/gazz



/mIzrIz/ is alive and well. One of my white upper-level English grammar

students in her mid- to late twenties from a small town south of Macon

tells me that this pronunciation is the only pronunciation that she and her

family knows. She thought everybody else was saying /mIzrIz/.





Wayne Glowka

Professor of English

Director of Research and Graduate Student Services

Georgia College

Milledgeville, GA 31061

912-453-4222

wglowka[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]mail.gac.peachnet.edu