Date: Sun, 5 Dec 1993 09:24:00 EST
From: "Dennis.Preston" 22709MGR[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MSU.BITNET
Subject: Re: Sounding Northern
Ho-ho-ho. Don Lance may fool them show-me students into believing that Stanard
US English has its omphalos in Mission TX, but replications of the 'where do
they speak the most correct English' studies of the early 1980's still show
that MI speakers are as convinced now (as they were then) that MI English is
the very best. (Suprising new data: young MI college students are not nearly
as harsh in their judgments of the correctness and friendliness of US Southern
states English as they were a decade, and (most surprising), California has
become a tertiary area of incorrectness and unpleasantness.
Dennis Preston
22709mgr[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]msu.bitnet