Download or read book How to Speak Midwestern written by Edward McClelland and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A long-overdue study of the middle-American vernacular, and how that vernacular informs our identity . . . A regionally specific Urban Dictionary.” —Inside Hook The Pittsburgh toilet. Squeaky cheese. City chicken. Shampoo Banana. Chevy in the Hole. These are all phrases that are familiar to Midwesterners, but foreign to anyone living outside the region. Find out what they mean in How to Speak Midwestern. Edward McClelland will not only explain what Midwesterners say, but how and why they say it. He examines the causes of the Northern Cities Vowel Shift, one of the most significant changes in English pronunciation in a thousand years; explains why the accents in Fargo miss the nasality that’s a hallmark of Minnesota speech; and reveals why Chicagoans talk more like people from Buffalo than their next-door neighbors in Wisconsin. For outsiders, McClelland will include helpful information such as “How to Talk Through Your Nose,” “How to Mispronounce Foreign Place Names,” and “‘Well, That’s Different’: How to Passive-Aggressively Criticize People, Places and Things.” If you’re from the Midwest, you’ll have a better understanding of why you talk the way you do. If you’re not, well, you’ll know exactly what to say the next time someone ends a sentence with “eh?” “How to Speak Midwestern is a fascinating read, whether you hail from WOWOland, the UP, Cereal City, or Baja Minnesota.” —Chicagoist “A dictionary wrapped in some serious dialectology inside a gift book trailing a serious whiff of Relevance.” —The New York Times
Download or read book If You Could See What I See written by Sylvia Browne and published by Hay House, Inc. This book was released on 2006-01-31 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This enlightening work by renowned psychic Sylvia Browne contains the Gnostic tenets of her church, the Society of Novus Spiritus, and is a map of our charts regardless of what spiritual path we follow. It has taken many years of research to put together what at first seems simple tenets to follow, but in going deeper, this book carries within it the very heart of humankind’s search for our own spirituality. Sylvia has also included many details from her own personal journey, which she feels is comparable to the quest that each of us follows to find our own God-center. As we travel this road, we can realize that long-forgotten, yet simple and truthful goal of viewing our life on Earth as our path to God.
Download or read book An Indiana Girl written by Fred. S. Lincoln and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Love and Drollery written by John Wardroper and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Ulverston New Poetical Miscellany written by and published by . This book was released on 1812 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The British Broadside Ballad and Its Music written by Claude Mitchell Simpson and published by New Brunswick, N.J., Rutgers U. P. This book was released on 1966 with total page 972 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
