"Mispronouncing" names

[Dennis R. Preston]

Millie,

A little cross-dialectal hypercorrection (which makes it something
else of course) among friends is OK.

dInIs



Sorry, [dInIs], I mistyped your name in my own pronunciation in stead
of yours.  There we go again on "mispronouncing" names.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Millie Webb" <millie-webb at CHARTER.NET>
To: <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
Sent: Monday, December 09, 2002 1:44 PM
Subject: Re: Teaching With a Kentucky Accent


  Then again, the classmates I spoke of were in Education
>  (sorry, I think I said English), and Michiganders tended to be quite
>  snobbish when it came to having a corner on the "correctness" market.  As
>  dEnIs has pointed out before.

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Dennis R. Preston
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