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Language: English
Published by Castle, 2002
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- Title
- New Yawk Tawk: A Dictionary of New York City Expressions
- Author
- Robert Hendrickson
- Publisher
- Castle
- Publication year
- 2002
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0785815562
- ISBN 13
- 9780785815563
- Item weight
- 1.1 pounds
The whole schmeer everything you need to know about New York talk. Speakers from New York City and its surrounding regions have a distinct accent and speech mannerisms all their own. Linguists study them and tough-talking screen gangsters imitate them. Now the phrases, words, expressions, and ethnic roots of New York speech are defined in one handy reference. In A-to-Z format, New Yawk Tawk collects more than 1,200 entries that will take readers on a fun and informative "tour" of the self-proclaimed "Capital of the World."
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Review
"This [New York Tawk] gives me a chance to recommend a range of recent Hendrickson dialect works . . . from 'Yankee Talk' to 'Whistlin' Dixie' to last year's Ozarkian 'Mountain Range.'" -- William Safire, The New York Times Magazine
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