Query for books about class
Brad De Long
delong at econ.Berkeley.EDU
Thu Jan 4 13:25:50 PST 2001
>
>>>and the correct pronunciation of "patina."
>>
>>Which is? pa-tee-na?
>
>No. That's the pronunciation that reveals its speaker as a
>pretentious arriviste. PAT-nah is more like it
><http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=patina>.
>
>Doug
If my great grandmother Eleanor Anderson Carter Lord, Radcliffe '99,
were still alive, she'd be surprised to hear that.
Brad DeLong
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