Newspaper story about Doris Lamar and Wichita

[ROOD DAVID S]

Thanks, Dave.  I always hold my breath when dealing with journalists, but 
this one was great.

I don't know what the difference between those words is; even in the 60s, 
no one seemed to think there was one.  I think they both contain a root 
something like wi:r for 'male' (borrowed by Latin, of course ;-)), e.g. 
'man' is wi:c, from wi:r-s, but that's as far as I can get.  I often tried 
to make wi:ks a fast speech variant of wiyasaks, but the medial "s" 
shouldn't disappear in such a form.

Best,
David

David S. Rood
Dept. of Linguistics
Univ. of Colorado
295 UCB
Boulder, CO 80309-0295
USA
rood at colorado.edu

On Sun, 20 Jan 2008, David Costa wrote:

> David:
>
> They did a beautiful job with that article. And it's very poignant.
>
> So what *is* the difference between /wiyasaks/ and /wi:ks/? :-) Is the
> latter a fast speech variant of the former?
>
> Dave Costa
>
>
>
>> From: ROOD DAVID S <David.Rood at Colorado.EDU>
>> Reply-To: siouan at lists.colorado.edu
>> Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 13:24:55 -0700 (MST)
>> To: siouan at lists.colorado.edu
>> Subject: Newspaper story about Doris Lamar and Wichita
>>
>>
>> http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/spe/2008/wichita/
>>
>> The above gets you to a Dallas Morning News article about Wichita and
>> especially about Doris.  I think it's beautifully done.  Let me know what
>> you think.
>>
>> David
>>
>> David S. Rood
>> Dept. of Linguistics
>> Univ. of Colorado
>> 295 UCB
>> Boulder, CO 80309-0295
>> USA
>> rood at colorado.edu
>