Re: USAGE: English, Masculine, Feminine

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...>

> On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 01:57:49PM -0400, Roger Mills wrote:
> > A dissenting message, from a Midwesterner who's spent a lifetime
sluffing
> > (??)
>
> Standard spelling of that is "sloughing".

Are we correcting spelling on this list when people don't ask for it?


> > To many older (than me) Americans, particularly of the
> > Midwestern/isolationist/nativist persuasion, RP-- the only accent they
> > tended to hear in the 1920-50 period-- sounded snooty, arrogant, and in
the
> > opinion of many, downright queer (i.e. faggy, though that word wasn't in
> > circulation then).  All English males were utterly suspect.
>
> To men, perhaps, but did women agree with this assessment? :)
I can only speak for myself, but I have been fairly indifferent to the male
British sex appeal.  For me, the sexiest accent is North Carolinian.  Mah
granddaddy tawked like that, he was the best read man I ever knew as a girl,
and the most sarcastic, a poet as well as a successful engineer, and when I
was knee high to a grass-hopper it was Andy of Mayberry that sent me into
orbit.

Still does... :)   Damn those stereotypes about southern politicians!

:))

Sal

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