New thread--a curious thing

[Bob Haas]

Yikes!  Nice work, Arnold.  I agree with your reasoning on this last bit.

bob

> From: Arnold Zwicky <zwicky at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU>
> Reply-To: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 20:01:05 -0700
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Subject: Re: New thread--a curious thing
>
> in any case, given the apparently uniform K character of british
> variants, u.s. P seems to be an innovation, and presumably existed
> alongside K - but, by some accident (having perhaps to do with the
> users of one variant or the other and the contexts in which they used
> the variants) appeared in the texts that got sampled first for
> dictionaries.