Honorof & Sheidlower on WNYC

[Jonathan Lighter]

Congratulations, "dialect coach" !  That's an occupation the public can understand.

  The more erudite members of the public.

  JL

Benjamin Zimmer <bgzimmer at BABEL.LING.UPENN.EDU> wrote:
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On WNYC today at noon (Leonard Lopate Show, guest host Budd Mishkin):

http://www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/episodes/2007/01/19
Please Explain: Dialects
On today's Please Explain, Doug Honorof, a linguist and dialect coach,
and lexicographer Jesse Sheidlower, Editor at Large for the Oxford
English Dictionary, answer your questions about why languages have
different dialects.

Streaming audio available on the website (live and archived).


--Ben Zimmer

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