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[Dennis R. Preston]

Bethany,

You would expect politeness down there; if you started anything with
MF in Michigan, you would encounter a different pronunciation.

dInIs



>When the language departments merged at UT a few years ago, the new
>department was named Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures - MFLL,
>pronounced, of couse, by everyone except MFLL faculty as (muffle).
>
>Bethany
>
>On Wed, 25 May 2005, Dennis R. Preston wrote:
>
>>And when Spanish and Portuguese split off at MSU recently, the new
>>French, Italian, and Classics Department could not be FIC, and
>>appartent oversensitivity to Germanic. (And Spanish and Portuguese is
>>not SAP either.) Luckily The Department of Linguistics, Germanic,
>>Slavic, Asian and African Languages is LGSAAL, hard to make into
>>anything (or pronounce for that matter).
>>
>>dInIs


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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