"Authentic pronunciation"

[Herb Stahlke]

Typo for "yooper"?  "Youper" gets about 135k raw googits and out of
the first four pages only two, both spelled "yoope,r" refer to folks
from da UP.  "Yooper" gets about a million hits, most of the first 40
referring to UPers.

One of my favorite bumper stickers:  Say ya tuh duh U. P.

Herb

On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
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> At 12:16 PM -0400 10/3/10, Joel S. Berson wrote:
>>At 10/3/2010 10:31 AM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>>>The stereotypical Minnesota pronunciation is that of the Coen
>>>Brothers' "Fargo", as e.g. in the speech of Sheriff Gunderson
>>>(Frances McDormand).  Hardly among the "least-accented"!  (Garrison
>>>Keillor also portrays various lexical and phonological idiosyncracies
>>>of Minnesota English on his Prairie Home Companion, and at one point
>>>a semi-serious spin-off book appeared, Howard Mohr's _How to Speak
>>>Minnesotan_.  Could be worse, you betcha!
>>
>>I'll have to rent and re-view the movie.
>
> One feature associated with "Minnesotan" as popularly portrayed is
> the "clear", i.e. non-offglided vowels presumably influenced by the
> Scandinavian substrate of (some of) the speakers in the upper Midwest
> (as with the Finnish influence on Youper (U. P. Michigan) vowels).
> You'll hear it in some of the speech portrayed in "Fargo".
>
> LH
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>>(Keillor I discounted as
>>adopting various odd local dialects, as does Rose on "Golden
>>Girls".)  I seem to have moved the center of unaccented American
>>English too far north and west.
>>
>>Joel
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