Dialect in America
My sister moved to Texas about three years ago from Oklahoma. Recently, my sister and I were speaking on the phone and she made a reference to soda, otherwise known as pop. My kids and I call any carbonated beverage pop, as a matter of fact, everyone I know calls it pop, except now for my sister. She said that everyone she knows in Texas calls it soda. I began to wonder how differently English is spoken among the different regions of the United States. The Southern dialect was formed primarily from English and Black English. In 1607 more than half of the people who settled in Jamestown, Virginia came from southern England. Proper London of the eighteenth century influenced southern speech the most. The southern seaport and plantation owner were in clo
Some of the New York dialect, sometimes called Brooklynese is traced back to the Dutch settlers of New Amsterdam who immigrated to the New York area. Two-thirds of the fifteen thousand people who came to the United States from England were Puritans from East Anglia. Though the Yiddish strongly influenced the New York dialect, no one has been able to prove the actual origin it. The New England way of speaking is the first to be recognized by visitors and the first to be honored with a name, "The New England Dialect", in 1788. There are words and phrases that were once used but no so much anymore, if at all. Black English, with all of its varieties, played a significant role in the Southern dialect. The south had a larger population of blacks than the north so it makes sense that Black English would help form the southern way of speaking. The pilgrims brought their own words, but New Englanders mainly adhered to the speech and culture of old England. However Black English is now spoken throughout the United States more than any other variety of English. More so in New England than anywhere else in the United States, New Englanders way of speaking is the closest of the proper English that is spoken England. Some say that Brooklynese may also have roots in German or Yiddish. Tote came from "tota" meaning "to pick up" in western Africa. Thus the blacks broadened their vocabularies and dialects. Black slaves who were brought to America spoke many different languages and dialects. The slave owners intermingled the slaves so the slaves would not rebel.
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