Date:    Fri, 8 May 1998 07:47:34 EDT
<br>From:    CLAndrus <CLAndrus[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]AOL.COM>
<br>Subject: Re: Minnesota-area dialect
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<br>I did a series of business writing seminars in St. Paul a couple of years ago
<br>at a big hospital, and heard the final "with," as, Carol, we're going to
<br>lunch. Are you coming with. Also I noticed a lot of the words are different. I
<br>wanted a drink of water and asked for the water fountain and was sent miles
<br>through this huge hospital to the central courtyard, where there was a huge
<br>water fountain with statues, etc. When I said I wanted a drink, someone
<br>replied..."Oh, you want the bubbler."
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