Date:  Thu, 14 Sep 1995 09:43:08 -0500

From:  Natalie Maynor <maynor[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]RA.MSSTATE.EDU>

Subject: Re: Consonant Cluster Reduction/Busleft



> Speaking of Central Georgian: one of the history professors from Ohio was

> waylaid when his eight-year-old son exclaimed the other day, "I was

> busleft!" Did an earlier discussion establish that this guiltless

> expression for missing the bus was also used in North Georgia?



I don't know, but I was surprised recently to hear one of my colleagues

objecting to the use of "weedeat" as a verb. Sounds like a perfectly

normal verb to me: weedeat, weedate, weedeaten, weedeating.

  --Natalie (maynor[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ra.msstate.edu)