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CANCELED: Badger Talk- Waukesha: "Wisconsin English"

Event Details

Date
Thursday, March 19, 2020
Time
6:30-7:30 p.m.
Location
321 Wisconsin Ave., Waukesha, WI
Description
This presentation, including plenty of audience participation, will explore the kinds of English spoken in our state, including pronunciation, words and word forms, and grammar. We’ll look at how key features of Wisconsin English have developed over time – and how remarkably recent they are – and how they are changing and becoming more distinct today.

Joe Salmons is the Lester W.J. “Smoky” Seifert Professor in Language Sciences at UW–Madison.
Cost
Free

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