How to speak Midwestern / / Edward McClelland ; book design by Meredith Pangrace ; cover by David Wilson

• Autore: McClelland Ted
• Pubblicazione: Cleveland, Ohio : , : Belt Publishing, , 2016
• Edizione: First edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (90 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 427.977
• Soggetto topico: English language - Variation - Middle West; English language - Dialects - Middle West; Americanisms - Middle West; HISTORY - United States - State & Local - Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI); LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES - Linguistics; SOCIAL SCIENCE - Anthropology - Cultural & Social; English language - Variation; English language - Dialects; Americanisms
• Soggetto geografico: Middle West
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Persona (resp. second.): PangraceMeredith; WilsonDavid
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Inland North -- Midland -- North Central -- Glossaries.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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?"
• Titolo autorizzato: How to speak Midwestern
• ISBN: 0-9977742-9-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910154598403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II