Dialects: From True Grit to Soda Pop

Thanks to everyone who came to our first meeting. Here are some cool links that relate to the topics we discussed. Stay tuned for the date of our first discussion on Language Myths!

Check out the video on English dialects from How The States Got Their Shapes: Here.

Also Check out this blog post from Language Log. It’s on the use of contractions (or lack there of) in the various True Grit movies as compared with actual speech from the time period.

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