St Louis dialect

[Frank Abate]

For examples of what more downhome St. Louis dialect may be like, note that
baseball figures Joe Garagiola (also was a sportscaster, game-show host,
voiceover guy, and appeared for a short while way back on the Today Show as
a fill-in host) and Yogi Berra were from St. Louis.

Olympian Jackie Joyner-Kersee was from East St. Louis, the largely black
community across the river from St. Louis.

I don't know if Don Lance has weighed in on this issue, but he could
undoubtedly come up with more exemplars.

Frank Abate