entertaining dialect

[David Bergdahl]

Beverly Flanigan wrote:

> My southern Ohio students think my Minnesota /o/ is a hoot [...]

...now there's an Athens & surrounding region form: "it's a hoot!"  DARE gives
hoot2 as related to Hutterites...does this generalized use of the term have more
than regional use?

--db
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