Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 10:55:33 CDT

From: "Donald M. Lance" ENGDL[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MIZZOU1.MISSOURI.EDU

Subject: Re: Consonant Cluster Reduction/Busleft



Some time ago I had a Black student who had attended a Catholic high

school. He said the nuns would haze the Black kids by asking what

Jesus did from the tomb. They knew they were supposed to give a one-

word answer. Their consonant cluster reduction and prenasal vowel

yielded a response that merited a sound slap across the hand with a

wooden ruler. Ascend. DMLance