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[Dennis R. Preston]

We all, most of us at any rate, find normal pretty close to home.

dInIs

>"Merciful speed!" as my mother says. dInIs, you have come close to
>persuading me that the dialect by which I judge the anomalousness of
>other people's speech patterns, to wit: my own personal idiolect, of
>course, may itself be anomalous! Good work!
>
>-Wilson


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Dennis R. Preston
University Distinguished Professor of Linguistics
Department of Linguistics and Germanic, Slavic, Asian, and African Languages
A-740 Wells Hall
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824
Phone: (517) 432-3099
Fax: (517) 432-2736
preston at msu.edu