End of ADS-L Digest - 5 Jan 1996 to 6 Jan 1996 ********************************************** There are 7 messages totalling 155 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. American Diphthongs (2) 2. Empirical proof for "going postal" 3. 'old maid' 4. 5. Various 6. budge ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 7 Jan 1996 00:13:05 -0500 From: David Carlson Subject: Re: American Diphthongs I have found several occurrences of the [o] offglide in the Pacific Northwest records. A lot more than I had expected when I was working on the list manuscripts. A brief glance at the file shows it in "down", "drought", and "without" . I had assumed that it may have been a fieldworker variation. David R. Carlson Springfield College