Being pendantic

[Peter A. McGraw]

George McGovern took the process a step further.  I never heard him refer
to the country in any other way but as the "Unine States" (with stress on
the "nine").  I always assumed this was idiolectal, but maybe it's a South
Dakotanism, for all I know.

Peter Mc.

--On Wednesday, September 28, 2005 9:24 AM -0400 "Dennis R. Preston"
<preston at MSU.EDU> wrote:

> This would appear to be similar (progressive rather than regressive)
> to the phenomenon David Stampe noted years ago in his paper "Why Some
> People Live in the Uninted States."
>
> dInIs



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Peter A. McGraw       Linfield College        McMinnville, Oregon
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