Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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According to Linguist Lee A. Pederson of Atlanta's Emory University, who specializes in Southern dialects, Carter's speech pattern is not merely Southern, not simply Georgian, but Gulf coastal plain. It is one of at least seven distinct regional dialects that are discernible in what Pederson considers to be one of the nation's most linguistically complicated states.* What is more, it differs markedly from dialects in other Southern states. Thus an Alabaman's drawn-out "you all" becomes "yawl" in the more rapid South Georgian speech, and "Ah wouldn't" becomes "Ah woon...
Thus Carter routinely modulates his pitch, employing a delicate rising and falling of his voice that results in an almost singsong effect. Another Gulf coastal plain element: he drops what linguists call postvocalic rs in such words as go-phuh (gopher) and Cot-tuh. According to Pederson, however, the younger generation of Gulf coastal plains people, who have been exposed to accentless network television and modern speech courses, pronounce...
...other dialects: Carolina mountain, Alabama-Tennessee, low country, northern and southern Piedmont. Atlantic coastal plain and Thomaston-Valdosta...
Many of the better law-enforcement organizations try to police themselves. The Los Angeles and Washington departments have strict guidelines for decoys on prostitute patrols. Plainclothes, for example, means plain indeed-no hot pants or see-through blouses. "The way some of our female officers dress, they look like they couldn't trap a bulldog with two pounds of hamburger," says one Washington cop. But Assistant Los Angeles City Attorney George Eskin concedes that some suggestive acts may not get reported: "The undercover female officer isn't going to say I winked at him and he responded...
...Cabin changed all that. It was the first great American bestseller. In its initial year in print it sold 300,000 copies, and eventually more than 3 million American readers bought the book. Worldwide, sales ran to something like 10 million in 40 languages. In this plain but informative portrait, Biographer Gerson notes that Author Stowe never visited the Deep South before the Civil War. Most of her knowledge of slavery was gleaned from former slaves whom she met while she was living in Cincinnati (one of the busiest stops on the Underground Railway), though she did visit a working...