| Description |
157 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes a bibliography |
| Contents |
Introduction -- How the turtle helped create the world -- Nanabozho: the Ojibway superhero -- Coyote: Trickster of the Great Plains -- The legend of the sleeping bear -- Nain Rouge: the demon who haunts Detroit -- The voyageur's beacon -- Mike Fink and the Pirates of Ohio -- Febold Feboldson: Nebraska's prairie genius -- Peg Leg Joe and the songs of the Underground Railroad -- Paul Bunyan's tallest tale -- The Hodag: Terror of the North Woods -- Joe Magarac: Man of steel -- Thje Wabash Cannonball -- Resurrection Mary -- Rosie the Riveter -- The ghost ship of the Great Lakes -- Bessie, the Lake Erie monster. |
| Summary |
Pittsburgh toilet, squeaky cheese, city chicken, shampoo banana, and Chevy in the Hole are all phrases that are familiar to Midwesterners but sound foreign to anyone living outside the region. This book explains not only what Midwesterners say but also how and why they say it and covers such topics as: the causes of the Northern cities vowel shift, why the accents in Fargo miss the nasality thats a hallmark of Minnesota speech, and why Chicagoans talk more like people from Buffalo than their next-door neighbors in Wisconsin. Readers from the Midwest will have a better understanding of why they talk the way they do, and readers who are not from the Midwest will know exactly what to say the next time someone ends a sentence with yeh?y. |
| Subject |
English language -- Variation -- Middle West -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
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English language -- Dialects -- Middle West -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
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Americanisms -- Middle West.
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| Added Author |
Wilson, David, illustrator.
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| ISBN |
9780998018812 |
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0998018813 |
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