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[Aaron E. Drews]

> Do linguists not use the term "mid-Atlantic"?  I've heard it very often,
> especially among actors.

It's been used on this list a couple of time before.  I know it was in a
recent book, on phonology or acquisition, although I don't have the title
handy.  It's part of the title of my thesis.

The term 'mid-Atlantic' is in use by linguists as well as non-linguists.
How much currency it has in either sphere, though, is another question.

--Aaron

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Aaron E. Drews                               The University of Edinburgh
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aaron at ling.ed.ac.uk                    Theoretical & Applied Linguistics

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