Date: Mon, 28 Feb 1994 10:25:42 -0500

From: Robert Kelly kelly[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]LEVY.BARD.EDU

Subject: Re: Prescriptivist horror stories



And who remembers the elegant ladies of Baltimore speaking of their maids'

excellent ray-si-payz? It tugged at my heartstrings in the 1950s when I

heard it, dim echo of a time when such a common borrowing was still new.



rk