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| List of Illustrations | |
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| Preface | |
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| Language Evolution or Dying Traditions | |
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| The State of American Dialects | |
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| The South | |
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| Sounds of the South | |
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| Defining Appalachian English | |
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| If these Hills Could Talk (Smoky Mountains) | |
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| Doing the Charleston (South Carolina) | |
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| The Lone Star State of Speech (Texas) | |
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| Speaking the Big Easy (New Orleans, LA) | |
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| Sounds of Ole Man River (Memphis, TN) | |
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| The North | |
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| Yakking with the Yankees (New England) | |
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| Beantown Babble (Boston, MA) | |
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| Mainely English | |
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| Steel Town Speak (Pittsburgh, PA) | |
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| New Yawk Tawk (New York City, NY) | |
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| Expressions of Brotherly Love (Philadelphia, PA) | |
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| Maple Leaf Rap (Canada) | |
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| The Midwest | |
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| An Introduction to Midwest English | |
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| Straight Talking from the Heartland (Midwest) | |
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| Words of the Windy City (Chicago, IL) | |
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| Different Ways of Talking in the Buckeye State (Ohio) | |
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| Spirited Speech (St. Louis, MO) | |
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| Saying Ya to the Yoopers (Michigan's Upper Peninsula) | |
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| The West | |
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| Getting Real in the Golden State (California) | |
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| Desert Dialect (Utah) | |
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| Dialects in the Mist (Portland, OR) | |
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| Arizona's not so Standard English | |
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| Islands | |
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| Topics from the Tropics (Hawai'i) | |
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| Speaking Strictly Roots (West Indies) | |
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| Gullah Gullah Islands (Sea Island, SC, GA) | |
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| Islands of Diversity (Bahamas) | |
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| Dialect in Danger (Outer Banks, NC) | |
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| Fighting the Tide (Smith Island, MD) | |
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| From Cod to Cool (Newfoundland, Canada) | |
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| The World's Loneliest Island (Tristan de Cunha) | |
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| Sociocultural Dialects | |
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| Bridging the Great Divide (African American English) | |
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| When Languages Collide (African American English) | |
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| Talking with mi Gente (Chicano English) | |
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| Stirring the Linguistic Gumbo (Cajun English) | |
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| From the Brickhouse to the Swamp (Lumbee Vernacular English) | |
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| More than just yada, yada, yada (Jewish English) | |
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| Fading Future for Ferhoodled English (Pennsylvania German) | |
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| Notes on Contributors | |