Dialects
LNG 201/ENGL 202
Prof. G. Steinberg
Answer the following questions about your personal dialect. (These
questions were compiled by Dale Coye, a person who used to teach the equivalent
of this course at TCNJ and an expert on New Jersey dialects.)
- Do the words LAWN and DON rhyme for you?
- If they do not rhyme, which vowel does ON have -- the vowel of LAWN or the
vowel of DON?
- Which vowel does GONE have?
- How do you say these words:
EITHER
ENVELOPE
CRAYONS
HUMAN
- What do you call the animal that gets into gardens and is brown and fat?
- You’ve got a baseball and want to throw it back and forth with a
friend. You say, “Let’s ______________?”
- You’re at a ball game. You say, “Come on guys! Let’s try
____ win today!”
- What do you call the piece of furniture you put your folded clothes in
when you’re not wearing them?
- What do you call the things that you slide out in that piece of furniture?
- You’re waiting to buy a ticket to see a movie. You say, “We were
waiting _____ line for half an hour!”
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