Fwd: Samples of Laramie (Wyoming) speech

[Karl Krahnke]

The University of Wyoming is in Laramie.  There might well be someone there in
the English Department who does a bit of dialectology.  There is no real
linguistics there though.  Laramie is 50 miles up the road from where I am in
Fort Collins, CO, and, while I have not looked at Laramie specifically, it is
generally part of the Rocky Mountain/Colorado/Front Range-generally
western-mostly Midland-mixed-feature area.  I don't know what motivates the
interest, but we need to be careful about the name and the image.  Laramie and
neighboring Cheyenne are not romantic, western, cowboy outposts full of
colorful, relic ruralisms (though they try to play that up -- "Frontier Days"
is currently going on in Cheyenne).  They are both on I-80 and have experienced
a lot of the population movement that is typical of southern Wyoming (energy
development).  There is, of course, a background of rural ranchers, and that
may be what the inquiry is about.  I know of no specific studies on it though.

Laramie/Cheyenne local TV news is easily available here in Fort Collins.  The
talking heads are from who knows where, but there are certainly interviews.  If
the poster wishes, I could maybe record some and send it on.

Karl Krahnke
Colorado State University


AAllan at AOL.COM wrote:

> Just your usual request. Anyone have ideas? Please forward to the inquirer,
> as well as to ADS-L. - Allan Metcalf
>
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> Subject: Samples of Laramie (Wyoming) speech
> Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 11:24:33 +0100
> From: Annalisa Panelli <Annalisa.Panelli at firstmark.net>
> To: "'AAllan at aol.com'" <AAllan at aol.com>
>
> Dear Mr Allan
>
> I am a linguistics grad (thesis on Manchester dialect UK), aspiring
> professional playwright. I currently live in London UK where I am
> temping for FirstMark Communications as administrator. For my next play
> I need to collect samples of Laramie (Wyoming) speech. All ages, all
> backgrounds. Radio recordings, videos, anything.
>
> Can you help me? Or do you know anyone who could?
>
> Thank you
>
> Your help is very much appreciated
>
> Best Wishes,
>
> Annalisa Panelli
> Admin Assistant
> FirstMark Communications Europe Limited
> Tel:  0207 529 5073
> Fax: 0207 529 5072
> Email: annalisa.panelli at firstmark.net