NYT on Staten Island lingo

Grant Barrett gbarrett at WORLDNEWYORK.ORG
Sat Dec 15 10:53:31 UTC 2007


On Dec 14, 2007, at 12:59, Benjamin Zimmer wrote:

> http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/14/nyregion/14journal.html
>
> No mention of our Mr. Popik, though.

There's also a City Room blog entry about a couple of vowel features
on Staten Island. Also no mention of Mr. Popik.

<http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/12/14/speaking-english-staten-
island-style/>

Grant Barrett
gbarrett at worldnewyork.org

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