... word to invoke humor or to impress the
listener with their knowledge of Pennsylvania German, as these examples
show:
“I can, but I get verhuddelt every now and then.”
“I used to try to talk to ... community. However, Cajun English use has been
documented among even the youngest Cajun descendants, a fact that is
easy to verify simply by going to any café in any small town in sout...
... European American varieties
over the years, so that present-day AAE is now quite different from
contemporary benchmark European American dialects. The differences
are not due to earlier language history, ... to erode as the
community emerges from insularity and adapts to the modern world?
It is not easy to answer this question, and it may be too early to tell.
Younger Trist...
... Mid-Atlantic coastal region, although its use
extends from the coastal areas of Virginia and Maryland to the north down
to the southern areas of coastal North Carolina. The use of the preposition
to for ... with
crabbing, we find dozens that refer to the crabs themselves, including
terms for various sizes of soft crab (ranging from mediums to hotels to
primes to jumbos to w...
... to go to the coast (geow to the ceowst), not the beach or the
shore, as well as to microbrews, used clothing stores (where the clothes are
not too spendy ‘expensive’), bookstores (bik-stores), ... sound to many speakers like but.
Dialects follow different shifts over time and become distinct, which is
why American English differs from British and Australian English, for
exam...
... English
to speak with the occasional British military visitor. He may also have
spoken some Potawatomi, the Native American language of his wife and
her family.
There is a lesson to be learned from ... Small-Town Values and Big-City Vowels
(2001, Durham, NC: Duke University Press). Dennis Preston’s research on popular
attitudes toward American dialects is reported in his contribut...
... As a result, they can be useful to people who are
trying to “sell” the city to tourists or businesses from outside. Linguists
still have a lot to learn about the dialects of southwestern Pennsylvania.
Like ... as in toity-toid and toid, for 33rd and 3rd, but you
would be hard pressed to hear that anymore among European Americans
in New York.
Perhaps this decline, along with othe...
... Wicked Good Guide to Boston English. www.boston-online.com/
glossary.html.
International Institute of Boston. Immigration to Boston: A Short History.
www.iiboston.org/immigrant_history.htm.
Laferriere, ... pronunciation patterns to illustrate both how New England differs
from the rest of the country and what region-internal differences exist.
Settlement of New England
The Massachuse...
... prone to diseases like yellow fever, to springtime
flooding from the rising river, and to tropical storms, it also made the port
strategically important to European colonial powers and later to the
United ... mix of elements both from various dialects of English and from
other languages, TXE is in fact somewhat different from other closely
related varieties.
A Short Linguis...
... condition of Amer-
ican dialects is, “Are American dialects dying, due to television and the
AVC01 21/7/05, 10:48 AM1
AMERICAN VOICES
How Dialects Differ from
Coast to Coast
Edited by Walt Wolfram
and ... African Americans across urban and
rural areas that range from Boston to Los Angeles.
Population Movement
Dialect boundaries often follow the migratory routes o...
... to the customers’ value
creation and how to help customers succeed.
Understand technology opportunities — Jones’s employees
work to understand how and why customers, and the customers’
customers, ... Models Are Stories!, 105
Why Are Stories Important?, 107
It Is Always Hard to Grasp the Whole Coherently, 107
Stories Are Unsurpassed for Effective Communication, 109
We Rely on St...