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.)

  1. Do the words LAWN and DON rhyme for you?
     
  2. If they do not rhyme, which vowel does ON have -- the vowel of LAWN or the vowel of DON?
     
  3. Which vowel does GONE have?
     
  4. How do you say these words:
     
    EITHER
     
    ENVELOPE
     
    CRAYONS
     
    HUMAN
     
  5. What do you call the animal that gets into gardens and is brown and fat?
     
  6. You’ve got a baseball and want to throw it back and forth with a friend.  You say, “Let’s ______________?”
     
  7. You’re at a ball game.  You say, “Come on guys!  Let’s try ____ win today!”
     
  8. What do you call the piece of furniture you put your folded clothes in when you’re not wearing them?
     
  9. What do you call the things that you slide out in that piece of furniture?
     
  10. 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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