Date:  Wed, 8 Nov 1995 11:19:21 -0800

From:  Peter McGraw <pmcgraw[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]CALVIN.LINFIELD.EDU>

Subject: Re: RhetORic



That's funny. Yesterday I heard an interview on NPR's "All Things

Considered" with a participant in the recent African American Million-Man

March in Washington. Unfortunately I don't remember where the interviewee

was from, but he spoke several times about toning down, or not getting

carried away by, the "rhetic."



Peter McGraw

Linfield College

McMinnville, OR



On Wed, 8 Nov 1995, Wayne Glowka wrote:



> On a quick ride to the Wal-Mart to get some anti-freeze a minute ago, I

> heard a caller from Wisconsin (I believe) tell Rush Limbaugh something

> about liberal rhetORic, with stress on the second syllable. Is this

> pronunciation common up yonder or is it an attempt at saying a word read

> but never heard?

>

>

> Wayne Glowka

> Professor of English

> Director of Research and Graduate Student Services

> Georgia College

> Milledgeville, GA 31061

> 912-453-4222

> wglowka[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]mail.gac.peachnet.edu

>