"Heynabonics. Kina funny, hey na?"

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On Nov 16, 2007 3:20 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> FWIW, four minutes on YouTube of a "class" on the dialect of NE PA.
> Not much new, except for the use of _hey na?_ for "right? you agree?
> okay wit chu?", etc.

Now on Language Log:

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/005129.html

Thanks for the tip, Wilson!

--Ben Zimmer

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