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Subject: ADS-L Digest - 1 Jul 1997 to 2 Jul 1997

There are 5 messages totalling 157 lines in this issue.

Topics of the day:

 1. Montreal vs. NYC (was: How plausible is this speculation?)
 2. Ozark Folk, the Clean Air Act, and Pollution Credits
 3. plural ozark (2)
 4. Antarctica lingo (cool!)

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Date:  Wed, 2 Jul 1997 00:32:58 -0500
From:  Dan Goodman <dsgood[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]VISI.COM>
Subject: Montreal vs. NYC (was: How plausible is this speculation?)

> Date:  Tue, 1 Jul 1997 12:42:37 PDT
> From:  barbara <GRADMA[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]UVVM.UVIC.CA>
> Subject: Re: How plausible is this speculation?
>
> Dan: Montrealers haven't got "much less of an accent" than New Yorkers; they
> have *different* ones. I heard a CBC broadcast years ago when someone (I can't
> remember who he was) claimed to be able to discern *seven* differnt Anglo
> dialects in Montreal. Happy Canada Day!
>
> Barbara Harris.

Oops! I thought it was reasonably clear from context that I was
speaking _subjectively_. To _me_, a Montrealer speaking English has
less of an accent -- that is, sounds much closer to Hudson
Valley/Upstate New York -- than someone from New York City (or nearby
areas of New Jersey and Long Island). This includes Francophone
Montrealers.

I would expect that anyone doing a _professional_ dialect study would
have a better-trained ear than mine.

Dan Goodman
dsgood[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]visi.com
http://www.visi.com/~dsgood/index.html
Whatever you wish for me, may you have twice as much.