Speaking American : how y'all, youse, and you guys talk : a visual guide / Josh Katz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Katz, Josh, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--United States.

English language.

Americanisms.

United States.

Genre:

atlases.

Atlases.

Physical Description:

203 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Boston ; New York : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes indexes.

Local Notes:

The Balch Ethnic Studies Collection - Any item which honours the collecting tradition of The Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies, specifically: ethnic and immigrant studies materials, ethnic communities across the United States--including their national organizational life and periodical production-and national ethnic organizations, especially those headquartered in the Mid-Atlantic region.

ISBN:

0544703391

9780544703391

OCLC:

932050666

Online:

Dialect quiz