Barry utters NYT 'QUOTATION OF THE DAY'

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On 1/16/06, Benjamin Zimmer <bgzimmer at babel.ling.upenn.edu> wrote:
> Making Barry more quoteworthy than any of the "linguists enlisted by
> The New York Times to compare recordings of the mayor's first and
> second inaugural addresses" (William Labov, Paul Meier, Joan Houston,
> George Jochnowitz, William A. Kretzschmar).
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/16/nyregion/16accent.html

Whoops, that's what I get for doing a quick copy-and-paste. Not "Joan
Houston" but "Joan Houston (pronounced HOWston, the New York way)
Hall". Sorry about that.


--Ben Zimmer

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