Speaking American: How Y'all, Youse , and You Guys Talk: A Visual Guide
Did you know that your answers to just a handful of questions can predict the zip code of where you grew up? In 2013 Josh Katz accumulated and visually mapped over 350,000 unique survey responses to questions about word choice and pronunciation throughout America. His dialect quiz quickly became...
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Did you know that your answers to just a handful of questions can predict the zip code of where you grew up? In 2013 Josh Katz accumulated and visually mapped over 350,000 unique survey responses to questions about word choice and pronunciation throughout America. His dialect quiz quickly became the most viewed webpage in the history of the New York Times. In Speaking American Katz offers a visual atlas of the American vernacular—who says what, and where they say it—revealing the history of our nation, our regions, and our language.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780544703391 (0544703391)
Publish date: 2016-10-25
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages no: 203
Edition language: English
Peregrinations mentioned this book in one of her posts and of course I had to immediately get it. I live in a place where I am daily questioned on how I talk, and this has fostered a fascination with the English language and accents in particular. This is a larger format book, not quite coffee ta...
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