Speaking American how y'all, youse, and you guys talk : a visual guide
Did you know that your answers to just a handful of questions can predict the zip code of where you grew up? In 2013, Josh Katz accumulated and visually mapped over 350,000 unique survey responses to questions about word choice and pronunciation throughout America. His dialect quiz quickly became th...
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Boston ; New York :
Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,
2020.
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| 505 | 0 | |a Author's note and introduction -- How we live -- What we eat -- How we sound -- Where we go -- Things we see -- Conclusion -- Index of terms used -- Index of places. | |
| 520 | |a Did you know that your answers to just a handful of questions can predict the zip code of where you grew up? In 2013, Josh Katz accumulated and visually mapped over 350,000 unique survey responses to questions about word choice and pronunciation throughout America. His dialect quiz quickly became the most viewed webpage in the history of the New York Times. In Speaking American, Katz offers a visual atlas of the American vernacular -- who says what, and where they say it -- revealing the history of our nation, our regions, and our language. | ||
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