T & A; Big O

[Bruce Dykes]

-----Original Message-----
From: Aaron E. Drews <aaron at LING.ED.AC.UK>
To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
Date: Monday, May 01, 2000 9:12 AM
Subject: Re: T & A; Big O


>Last summer, the Department of Applied Linguistics merged with (was
absorbed
>into) the Department of Linguistics.  It became (as the signature says)
>Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics.  Or T&A Linguistics, for
>short.  I'm the only one that sniggers every time I see or hear "T&A"
>Linguistics.  Even other (long-term expatriate) Americans don't get it.  It
>doesn't seem to be a phrase that has much currency here, or at least in the
>department.


I can go one better...in Englewood, NJ, a town I live near, is butcher shop
called...the T&A Meat Market...

bkd