Date:  Wed, 20 Sep 1995 08:55:15 -0400

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

Subject: Re: Pulitzer Prze



>Did someone already ask this?

>

>Are pyulitzer people also kyupon people? And, pulitzer people ku-?

>

>I think I was a pulitzer/kup)n, and now I'm a pyu/kyu-

>And I'm beginning to suspect that I palatalized "coupon" (a word

>I rarely say, and haven't heard much) when I moved to a kyu

>- area,

>and have dragged the pulitzer prize along with it.

>

>A student corrected my "between you and me" yesterday. "I guess you

>were being informal" he said.

>How widespread is "PREP PRO CONJ I"?

>

>beth



I'm generally not a palatalizer, but coupon is a big exception in my pattern.







Wayne Glowka

Professor of English

Director of Research and Graduate Student Services

Georgia College

Milledgeville, GA 31061

912-453-4222

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