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...need a "cah" to get there, and you don't even need to be from Bahston to join the table, which will feature a group of Beantown natives delving into the mysteries of their curious dialect...

Author: By Adam Schwartz, | Title: 'Pahk Your Cah' at the Beantown Accent Table | 10/31/1985 | See Source »

Finn also stressed a more serious side to the evening, pointing out that many of tonight's scheduled guests plan to discuss "traumatic experiences" that have been the result of their Beantown dialect...

Author: By Adam Schwartz, | Title: 'Pahk Your Cah' at the Beantown Accent Table | 10/31/1985 | See Source »

...clot of listeners would form around Underwood as he talked, and every once in a while someone would offer encouragement in a most exuberant dialect. "At dogud tree!" What the man said was, "That dog could tree," meaning Troop had an unerring nose for raccoons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Alabama: a Coon Dog Indeed | 9/30/1985 | See Source »

...interpreters for 80 different languages from Albanian and Amharic to Turkish and Tongan. One judge estimates that nearly half his cases require an interpreter. Sometimes the results are freakish. A police officer testified that he had read a Chinese suspect his Miranda rights in Chinese, in the Tai- shan dialect. The suspect only understood Cantonese. The judge thereupon ruled out his confession...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Changing Face of America: Just Look Down Broadway | 7/8/1985 | See Source »

Young Georges-Marie, 9, has, as his cousin Bienville tartly notes, "more names than Jehovah," among them Moumou, Puss and the Dauphin. This spectrally beautiful, thin, pale child speaks a bewildering mixture of French and "Ol' Kintuck," the hayseed dialect he absorbed during his brief exposure to Governor Davis' three strapping sons: "O, he jest being plain bad. O, il m'echappe toujours!" All the Sioux are holding their breath to see how George takes to Castleton. Armand reassures his brother-in-law: "The Dauphin has a truly terrifying sense of gratitude. You'll be annihilated by it, my poor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poor Little Sod the Sioux | 3/4/1985 | See Source »

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