End of ADS-L Digest - 17 Feb 1994 to 18 Feb 1994

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There are 10 messages totalling 319 lines in this issue.



Topics of the day:



 1. /k(j)upan/ (2)

 2. [u]/[ju] (3)

 3. GURT '94 Presessions

 4. Houston St (2)

 5. initial too

 6. Houston St part 2



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Date:  Sat, 19 Feb 1994 09:26:10 -0500

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

Subject: Re: /k(j)upan/



When i was a child, during World War II, I recall a Readers Digest (I grew

up textually challenged, believe you moi!) that spent some time discussing

for the vast public whether kyoopon or koopon was right. For the blissful

young, coupon was a word of major incidence at that era, since rationing

of food and gasoline was mediated by coupons. I've forgotten what they

triued to shame us into suppressing. But I was left with the impression

then (whatever value an eight year old's take would be) that kyoopon was

on the same bad side of the tracks as kolyum (noospaper kolyum would be

the sort of thing). Hypercorrectia uninformeda.



rk