ADS-L Digest - 7 Jun 2005 to 8 Jun 2005 (#2005-160)

[Geoff Nathan]

At 12:03 AM 6/9/2005, you wrote:
>Hmmm... But wouldn't Carbondale host a bevy of students from
>[Northern-or- Mid-]Southern Illinois who would have fronted?

Approximately a third of SIU students stem from the greater Chicago region,
another third from the Carbondale region (including St. Louis), and the
final third from everywhere else, including international.  Carbondale is a
tiny island of melange in the middle of more standard south of I-70
southern midwest dialect similar to that found in southern Indiana (right
Dennis?).  Alas, I've been gone from C'dale long enough that I no longer
have intuitions about whether positive 'anymore' is prevalent there, but it
wouldn't surprise me if Rich R. had picked it up one place or another,
perhaps from his colleagues and students there.
Just to muddy the waters, Dennis Frantz is an alum of SIU also.  But the
Northern Cities vowel shift hasn't reached Carbondale, except for the
imports from Chicago.

Geoff
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