ENGLISH

How to Speak Midwestern

By Edward McClelland

Book information

Publisher
Belt Publishing
Year
2016
ISBN
9780997774276
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
927 kB (949377 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2022-09-29 13:37:58
HIS036090HistoryLAN009000language artsNonfiction

Description

Pittsburgh toilet, squeaky cheese, city chicken, shampoo banana, and Chevy in the Hole are all phrases that are familiar to Midwesterners but sound foreign to anyone living outside the region. This book explains not only what Midwesterners say but also how and why they say it and covers such topics as: the causes of the Northern cities vowel shift, why the accents in Fargo miss the nasality that's a hallmark of Minnesota speech, and why Chicagoans talk more like people from Buffalo than their next-door neighbors in Wisconsin. Readers from the Midwest will have a better understanding of why they talk the way they do, and readers who are not from the Midwest will know exactly what to say the next time someone ends a sentence with "eh?".

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