How Texans lost their accents and the newly religious found one
How do we place a person? Partly by the way they talk. But the accents that we use to locate people are constantly in flux. Apparently Texans are losing their distinct accents. Still others have...
View ArticleHow Jewish do you sound? Learning the lingo as you learn the ropes
I promised a full-length review of Becoming Frum: How Newcomers Learn the Language and Culture of Orthodox Judaism by Sarah Bunin Benor (Rutger’s University Press 2012) a while back, but I...
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