AP on Hillary's multidialectalism

[Benjamin Zimmer]

AP reports on Hillary Clinton's tendency of using a "Dixie drawl" when
addressing Southern and/or black audiences:

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CLINTON_SOUTHERN_TWANG?SITE=AP
"Clinton is a linguistic polyglot - a Chicago native turned New York
resident who works in Washington and spent two decades living in
Arkansas when her husband, Bill Clinton, was governor."

A "linguistic polyglot," hmmm?


--Ben Zimmer

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