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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 | |