Milwaukee-ese and Other Wisconsin Things To Say

We kick off the hour with Professor Joe Salmons, a linguist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, for a conversation around dialects, accents, and our attitudes about language.

Guest: Joe Salmons

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Joe Samons On Why We Talk the Way We Talk

Oh, Wisconsin-isms. There are many.

• Soda v. pop
• bag v. bayyyg a
• Bubbler
• Ope
• And adding “or no?” at the end of every question.

We talk to UW Wisconsin Madison Linguistics Professor, Joe Salmons, about dialects, accents, how they form, and how they change.

More reading:

• Mil-talk-ee: Inside the Milwaukee Dialect (Milwaukee Magazine)
• What happened to ‘Milwaukee-ese’? It hasn’t gone anywhere, but it has changed. (MJS)
• From TYME machine to ope!, here’s why many Wisconsinites say these words and more. (MJS)

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