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This Immensely Entertaining And Colorful Presentation Of American Dialects As They Are Spoken Today Celebrates The Great Cultural Diversity Of The Nation. Drawing Upon An Impressive Array Of Scholarly Research, And Relying, Too, On What His Own Remarkably Receptive Ears Have Heard, Wordsmith Robert Hendrickson Reminds Us That There Is No Such Thing As A Standard American Speech That Must Be Aspired To By All Citizens.--book Jacket. Ever' Body Says Words Different: American As She Is Spoke -- The Boston, Or Haavaad, Or New England Yankee Accent -- The Kings (county) English, Or How Youse Too Can Tawk Noo Yawk -- Yawl Spoken Here: The Sounds Of The South -- Deep Down In The Holler Where The Hoot Owl Hollers At Noon: Hillbilly Tawk -- Rappin Black-style: Including Pidgin, Plantation Creole, Gullah, And Black English -- Ferhoodled English: Pennsylvania Dutch Talk -- Da Kine Talk -- Harpin' In Boont -- More Discombobulating Twists In The Way Americans Talk: Including Pittsburghian, Philadelphian, Bawlamerese, Bonac, Isleborian, Cajun, Creole, Gumbo, Key West Conch, Spanglish, Texian, And Other Native Dialects And Subdialects. Robert Hendrickson.

Author

Hendrickson, Robert, 1933-

Publisher

New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Viking

Published

1986

Language

EN

ISBN

9780670813308

Subjects

Language Learning, Literary Fiction, Humanities