“Speaking American: How Y’all, Youse, and You Guys Talk” by Josh Katz; Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (224 pages, $25) “How to Speak Midwestern” by Edward McClelland; Belt Publishing (120 pages, $16.95) Hailing from the Galápagos of American speech, i.e., Pittsburgh, where cultural and geographic isolation allowed such mutations as yins and redd up to flourish, I enjoy hearing variety in the way people talk. [...]
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