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banquette (southern Louisiana) – sidewalk, foot-path; billfold (widespread, but infrequent Northeast, Pacific Northwest) – a man's wallet; cap (also Midlands) – sir (prob. from "captain") chill bumps (also Midlands) – goose bumps; chuck – toss or throw an object (now somewhat widespread) coke – any brand of soft drink
(Italy) Used by southern Italians to refer to northern Italians. It stands for 'polenta eater'. [24] Pom (Australia & New Zealand) The term for British people living in Australia & New Zealand. Slightly derogatory but also used in jest. Porteño (Argentina) A person from Buenos Aires. Polak (Polish) A person of Polish ethnic background or ...
The early 20th-century accent of the Inland North was the basis for the term "General American", [6] [7] though the regional accent has since altered, due to the Northern Cities Vowel Shift: its now-defining chain shift of vowels that began in the 1930s or possibly earlier. [8]
From our obsession with sweet tea to our no-rush mindset, there are some things about the South and Southern people that—bless their hearts—the rest of the country just can't understand. And ...
Midland American English is a regional dialect or super-dialect of American English, [2] geographically lying between the traditionally-defined Northern and Southern United States. [3]
The Southern Shift and Southern Drawl: A vowel shift known as the Southern Shift, which largely defines the speech of most of the Southern United States, is the most developed both in Texas English and here in Appalachian English (located in a dialect region which The Atlas of North American English identifies as the "Inland South"). [11]
Northern American English or Northern U.S. English (also, Northern AmE) is a class of historically related American English dialects, spoken by predominantly white Americans, [1] in much of the Great Lakes region and some of the Northeast region within the United States.
New England English is not a single American dialect, but a collective term for a number of dialects and varieties that are close geographic neighbors within New England, but which differ on a spectrum that broadly divides New England English into a unique north versus south (specifically, a northern merger of the LOT and THOUGHT vowels, versus a southern merger of the LOT and PALM vowels), as ...