Collegiate "geek" in the '70s (was Re: Synonymy avoidance)

[Laurence Horn]

At 8:41 AM -0800 3/11/05, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>I've  always said /vaz/ even though I can't afford any.
>
>Didn't this "distinction" really start out as a joke ?  Does
>anybody(except a few uptight linguists) really observe it ?
>
>JL

several students in my undergraduate "Words and Meaning" class did;
that's where I first learned about it

L