16 May 2013
If These Knishes Could Talk: The Story of the NY Accent
The story of the New York accent, as told by New Yorkers.
Omegäng
How is our dialect faring in the globalized age? When the "railroad age" began 160 years ago, Switzerland feared that High German would supplant the dialect. The opposite has happened. The dialect persists and continues to blossom.
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