recoing

[Michael H Covarrubias]

> At 11/27/2007 08:40 AM, Charles Doyle wrote:
> >
> >In regard to clippings, the next thing I was going to note is that
> >on some college campuses, the discipline (and department) of
> >ECONOMICS is colloquially referred to as "eco," on other campuses as
> >"econ." I wonder if that difference is partly influenced by whether
> >the college's official course prefix comprises three letters or four.

> Quoting "Joel S. Berson" <Berson at ATT.NET>:
> There is (was?) also "SoSci" and "SocSci", which, I vaguely remember
> from the mid-50s circa Boston, had some class distinction -- if you
> said one, you were going to the better school than those who said the other.

I grew up calling gym class P.E. or PhysEd [fIzed] in Ohio Maryland and
Michigan. Years later I heard for the first time PhyEd [faIed] used by (just
about) everyone in North Dakota.

Is there a regional difference with this one? Most occurrences of PhyEd that
I've noticed have come from the Wisc/Minn/Dakota region.

michael

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