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From: ejnorman@uwmacc.UUCP (Eric Norman)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Sioux-ry
Message-ID: <1879@uwmacc.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 6-Jan-86 22:18:24 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan  6 22:18:24 1986
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Keywords: "midwestern" Canada?

In article <2487@amdahl.UUCP> gam@amdahl.UUCP (G A Moffett) asks:
  
> other North Dakotans out there (perhaps at ndsuvax, the only Usenet-
> registered site in North Dakota) who can tell me if this type
> of accent is typical out there?  And perhaps some Canadians

My father was from North Dakota.  The only word I ever noticed he
pronounces with an accent is "sorry", which he pronounces "soowry".
His parents both came over on the boat from Sweden, I don't know
how significant that is.
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