Date:  Mon, 11 Sep 1995 22:52:47 EDT

From:  Larry Horn <LHORN[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]YALEVM.CIS.YALE.EDU>

Subject: Re: contempt vs. content



Marianna di Paolo writes (in response to Tom Clark),



>>I've lived in and out of Utah. I knew "contempt" before I lived there,

>>but I've heard "content" used by old husbands who know better than to

>>rile their wives. But Marianna Dipaolo will be able to set us all right.

>>Cheers,

>>tlc



>Well, I wish I could, Tom, but I have never heard the expression with

>anything other than "contempt". But so far the discussion suggests that

>"content" only occurs in Utah and maybe only in small towns. Is that

>right?

>



Well, Marianna, I can assure you that while my "content" may have been picked

up in New York (Manhattan or Long Island--the source, no doubt, of my

"jew-le-ry"), or perhaps in California (L.A. or Berkeley), or even in the

midwest (Ann Arbor or Madison), it most definitely was not contracted in a

small town in Utah.



Larry