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By Evan Schaeffer

YOU BETCHA! . . . In Slate's Culture Blog, Browbeat, Daniel Engber calls attention to a new scholarly article that analyzes Sarah Palin's manner of speaking--

[A] team of linguists from University of Wisconsin-Madison found that she uses the words heck and darn at least 20 times more often than her contemporary Americans. Using transcripts from the 2008 vice-presidential debate, they also found that she engaged in "g-dropping" (e.g. people are hurtin' or takin' personal responsibility) at an unusually high rate of 12 percent.

The article, which is really about dialects, is titled "Defining Dialect, Perceiving Dialect, and New Dialect Formation: Sarah Palin?s Speech."

Full post as published by Notes from the (Legal) Underground on November 16, 2009 (boomark / email).