"Coalspeak"

[Ben Zimmer]

On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 2:21 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> http://www.coalregion.com/
>
> This site, in the section called _Coalspeak_, has an amateur's
> "lexicon" of the regional speech of the former coal-mining counties -
> including Luzerne County, the current seat of your humble
> correspondent - of NE PA. There may be diamonds of interest among the
> lumps of anthracite. <har! har!>

I recall dipping into that site when I wrote a Language Log post on
"Heynabonics":

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

--bgz

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