On 25 Sep 2000, at 10:25, Mariah Meriam wrote:
> Anyone have any idea what terms like "Chicagoan" and "Seattlelite" are
> called, if anything, and where on the Web I might find a list of same?
Mariah:
I believe the term might be slanguage or slang, but there could be
other names for them too... There is a lot of information about
slanguage on the internet. Here are a few places:
American Slanguages has links to local cites and countries to "talk
like to locals":
http://www.slanguage.com/
Common American Slang:
Slanguage dictionary:
http://www.variety.com/nav.asp?HbkId=13426832&NavType=Slang
You might find the Alt.English FAQs interesting as it discusses word
origins etc:
http://murray.newcastle.edu.au/users/staff/peter/auefaq.html
Curt
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