The Real Valley Girls

* I just want to thank Scott Harris for his wonderful article (“Val Gals? Only to a Southern New Yorker,” June 2). He could not be more correct. I am just now finishing my sophomore year at Chaminade College Preparatory in West Hills and I laughed out loud at the stereotypes the New York Times columnist threw out. In all my life, I have come across tons of Valley Girls and not one has said the phrase “Oooh, wow, bummer!” while cruisin’ to Starbucks in their Mustang talking on the cell phone. Harris’ picture of a Valley Girl (not Val Gal) was truly hilarious. But just one correction: The most used word in the Valley Girl vocabulary is “like.”

ANDRE DerAVANESSIAN

Winnetka