Randomanea

[Shapiro, Fred]

Wasn't Mrs. King's name "Coretta"?

Fred Shapiro


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From: American Dialect Society [ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] on behalf of Wilson Gray [hwgray at GMAIL.COM]
Sent: Monday, January 13, 2014 9:27 PM
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Subject: Re: Randomanea

On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 8:42 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:

> As I observed many years ago, "Rosetta STONE" may be influenced to some
> degree by "Rosetta KING."
>

But, MLK's wife is "Rosetta *Scott* King." Besides, there's no reason to
assume that voice-over guys need to be influenced by anything more than the
assumption that "Rosetta Stone" is what it looks like: someone's name.


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