/tags/regional-dialect Regional Dialect en-US Copyright © 2024 �������� Fri, 14 Apr 2023 22:27:18 GMT /show/st-louis-on-the-air/2023-04-14/comedian-tru-wag-wants-st-louis-to-be-proud-of-its-unique-accent Tru Wag challenges St. Louisans to accent challenges that even he sometimes fails. Fri, 14 Apr 2023 22:27:18 GMT /show/st-louis-on-the-air/2023-04-14/comedian-tru-wag-wants-st-louis-to-be-proud-of-its-unique-accent Miya Norfleet /arts/2018-03-14/herre-and-thurr-how-st-louisans-celebrate-identity-and-accents-on-314-day Inspired by the work of Nelly, Chingy and other St. Louis rappers, a group of linguists at New York University began studying the “urr” sound in the mid-2000s. At the time, many linguists still wrongly believed that African-American English sounded the same all across the country — a myth that persisted in the field for decades. Wed, 14 Mar 2018 10:17:05 GMT /arts/2018-03-14/herre-and-thurr-how-st-louisans-celebrate-identity-and-accents-on-314-day Carolina Hidalgo /show/st-louis-on-the-air/2013-02-13/missour-ee-or-missour-uh-talking-about-talking-in-st-louis-and-beyond Is it Missour-ee or Missour-uh?Those two pronunciations of the state, according to linguist John Baugh of Washington University in St. Louis, peacefully… Wed, 13 Feb 2013 22:46:03 GMT /show/st-louis-on-the-air/2013-02-13/missour-ee-or-missour-uh-talking-about-talking-in-st-louis-and-beyond Alex Heuer, Mary Edwards, Don Marsh