Folk Awareness oif Dialect

Donald M. Lance LanceDM at MISSOURI.EDU
Sun Dec 3 23:10:49 UTC 2000


>From one of those ubiquitous e-mails: "you know you're from..."
YOU KNOW YOU'RE FROM PENNSYLVANIA IF:
11.  Stores don't have  bags; they have sacks.
14.  You end your sentence with an unnecessary preposition. Example: "Where's my coat at?"

23.  You think  everyone from a bigger city has an accent.



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