Bibliograph

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

Type

Label

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

Language

eng

Illustrations

illustrationsmaps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Speaking American*

Oclc number

932050666

Responsibility statement

Josh Katz

Sub title

*how y'all, youse, and you guys talk : a visual guide

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

Table Of Contents

Author's note and Introduction -- How we live -- Where we eat -- How we sound -- Where we go -- Things we see -- Conclusion

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