By Walt Wolfram, Ben Ward

American Voices is a suite of brief, readable descriptions of assorted American dialects, written via best researchers within the box. written by means of most sensible researchers within the box and contains Southern English, New England speech, Chicano English, Appalachian English, Canadian English, and California English, between many others interesting examine the entire variety of yankee social, ethnic, and nearby dialects written for the lay individual

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You can’t stand people who say the Mardi Gras or the Jazzfeast. You write eaux for the sound o, as in Geaux Zephyrs or Alfredeaux sauce. New Orleanians are also sentimental about street names (Chase 1949). Part of local identity is knowing that, for example, Milan Street is pronounced MY-lan, Burgundy is bur-GUN-dee, and Calliope is KAL-ee-ope. Over the past twenty years, a name has taken hold for the distinctive lower- and middle-class vernacular of whites in New Orleans. It is called Yat, and for the first time merits an entry in the American Heritage Dictionary (2000).

You call tomato sauce red gravy. You wrench your hands in the zink with an onion to get the crawfish smell off. You can’t stand people who say the Mardi Gras or the Jazzfeast. You write eaux for the sound o, as in Geaux Zephyrs or Alfredeaux sauce. New Orleanians are also sentimental about street names (Chase 1949). Part of local identity is knowing that, for example, Milan Street is pronounced MY-lan, Burgundy is bur-GUN-dee, and Calliope is KAL-ee-ope. Over the past twenty years, a name has taken hold for the distinctive lower- and middle-class vernacular of whites in New Orleans.

Great-grandchildren would not speak the same dialect as their forebears, as all living languages undergo change. We suspect that people who promote this idea within Appalachia are trying to correct the myth that there is something wrong with Appalachian English by promoting an alternative myth. Appalachian English has roots that extend far into the past. The dialect features we hear the most about demonstrate a link to Scots-Irish heritage: The car needs washed (vs. the non-Appalachian The car needs to be washed or The car needs washing).

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