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<br>Topics of the day:
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<br>  1. standardization of non-standard forms (2)
<br>  2. Emma Thompson's jaw (2)
<br>  3. The Burial of "ALLELUIA" (3)
<br>  4. TV Dialogue standards (3)
<br>  5. indirect speech acts
<br>  6. Annoy those Yankees!  (fwd from a student) (3)
<br>  7. METHODS (2)
<br>  8. "of" everywhere?
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<br>Date:    Fri, 20 Mar 1998 23:54:38 -0600
<br>From:    Mike Salovesh  t20mxs1[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]CORN.CSO.NIU.EDU 
<br>Subject: Re: standardization of non-standard forms
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<br>Just adding local data that surrounds me daily.  In local speech, it's
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<br>        "chase lounge" (most often referring to patio furniture)
<br>        "bedroom suit" (term of art for local auctioneers and 'old
<br>             family' furniture salesmen and store owners.  Gendered
<br>             'salesMEN' was a conscious choice of words.)
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<br>"Bedroom suit" was also used by auctioneers and furniture salesmen in
<br>and around Lafayette/West Lafayette, Indiana 25 or 30 years ago.
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<br>DeKalb, Illinois is about 60 miles due west of downtown Chicago.  The
<br>community splits socially into three groups: town, gown, and farm make
<br>good suggestive labels.  What I report here is the speech of town and
<br>farm. I often hear university people make fun of these specific items
<br>in  local speech.
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<br>Adults whose family roots in the county go back for more than a
<br>generation generally orient away from Chicago: their big city tends to
<br>be Rockford, Illinois.  Basic speech patterns are distinctly NOT
<br>Chicagoan.  (Academics, OTOH, look to Chicago, its concerts, museums,
<br>plays, and stores, rather than Rockford.)  It no longer surprises me to
<br>be so close to Chicago and hear what I used to think of as southern
<br>regionalisms in normal local speech.  What was at fault was my own
<br>simple view of dialect geography, which is lots more complex than I used
<br>to think.
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<br>Example:  Despite the occurence of lots of items that I once thought of
<br>as "southern", DeKalb joins northern speech in rhyming the  first
<br>syllable of "any", "many", "penny" with "hen" and "men".  Lafayette,
<br>Indiana is south of that dividing line, in dialect, and rhymes those
<br>words with "skinny".  (Their first syllable rhymes with "pin" or
<br>"thin".)
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<br>I suggest that "southern" may be the wrong label here.  A lot of
<br>so-called southern words and ways of pronouncing words of wider
<br>distribution are common right here in northern Illinois.  (I even
<br>remember hearing a TV announcer advertising "bedroom suits" on KSTP-TV,
<br>up in Minneapolis/Saint Paul.)
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<br>Maybe "rural" (or "rural Midwest") might better fit the facts.
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<br>--  mike salovesh                                salovesh[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]niu.edu 
<br>    anthropology department
<br>    northern illinois university                     PEACE !!!
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