Word: dialect
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...instance, the Boston dialect is commonly thought to be in immediate danger of disappearing, but the traditional linguistic features associated with it have been replaced by new distinctive characteristics. A Bostonian might not say "cah" any more - for car - but they will say potato puff for tater tot. Sprinkles will be jimmies. And they'll use terms like "triple-decker" and "grinder," which don't really appear outside of the region. Vaux says he could probably identify where a person is from, by asking under ten questions regarding such idiosyncracies in language. He explains that one of the main reasons...
...Read Su Tung-po poem New Year's Eve: Spending the Night Outside Chang-chou City (1073). "No one here speaks my dialect: I long for home... I thank the flickering torch that doesn't refuse/ to keep me company on a lonely boat through the night...
...McCourt's ear for dialect is so flawless that I didn't notice he was reading from his second book. His talent first appeared in Angela's Ashes, the hugely successful childhood memoir that won a Pulitzer Prize. 'Tis is the sequel to that story, beginning with McCourt's journey to America on the MS Irish Oak in 1949, and ending in Belfast, 1985. In between, we experience first-hand the trials and triumphs of an American immigrant, from his days sweeping the lobby of the Biltmore hotel to striding down the halls of Stuyvesant as a respected teacher...
...prequel. It's set a long time ago. It features monster-like creatures. Not Star Wars--it's The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas. "Fred and Barney are students at Bronto Crane Academy," says MARK ADDY (the chubby guy in The Full Monty), who, with the help of two dialect coaches, is playing Fred. "They live in a trailer that's just a pigsty." The movie will answer several burning Flintstone questions: How did blue-collar Fred win heiress Wilma Slaghoople (KRISTEN JOHNSON)? How did Barney Rubble (STEPHEN BALDWIN) meet Betty O'Shale (JANE KRAKOWSKI)? And where did Dino come...
...medical-school admissions, Marshall took issue with those who said poor whites should be given the same help as blacks. "There's not a white man in this country who can say he never benefited from being white," Marshall said. He could be bitingly acerbic, falling into slave dialect and calling the other Justices "Massa." In 1980, when the University of Maryland Law School dedicated its new library to him, Marshall wouldn't attend the ceremony. The school was just "trying to salve its conscience for excluding the Negroes," he said. As the court grew colder to civil rights...