Midwestern English

Grammar

"An" is omitted, most commonly on the A vowel. In example "That's an adorable dog." would be changed to "That's a-dorable dog." Contrary to what one may think, this is a pre-dissolution rule and not Slavic.

Midwestern writing does not always put the punctuation in the quotation marks, "He said, 'Help me!'" would be written with a period outside the quotation along with the exclamation mark: "He said, 'Help me!'."

Slavic Inherited Grammar

Omission of articles is both a pre and post-dissolution grammar rule, pre, it was generally seen in phrases such as "Shut off the lights." and simply, "Shut the lights." Post dissolution, children in bilingualism programs have been recorded saying, instead of "The dog bit her." just "Dog bit 'er." in the same way Slavic languages generally don't use articles.

Pronunciation

Midwestern speech changes between states, compared to predissolution, the country has a much more recognizable dialect. Vowels such as A and O are drawn out, the th- sound is very flat or replaced with a D or T.

I.E. "Three bags of chips." would be pronounced 'Tree baegs a' chips".

"Hand me those pliers from over there." would be changed to "Hand me tem pliers oover der won'tcha?"

Vocabulary

Key	Slavic	Central European	Scandanavian
Color Code	_________	_________	_________

Word	Meaning	Region
boulevard	grassy median strip
berm, boulevard, or terrace	a grassy road verge
soda	a bottled carbonated drink (for the canned variant, see pop)
bubbler	a drinking fountain	Some areas of Wisconsin and Minnesota, seen also in Chicago government buildings.
breezeway or skyway	a hallway-bridge connecting 2 buildings
Duck, Duck, Grey Duck	Actually correct name for the children's game Duck, Duck, Goose, modified with a "guessing game" with players saying all variety of colors before landing on "Grey Duck", theorized to be from the Sweedish name for the game, "Anka Anka Grå Anka" (Duck, Duck, Grey Duck).	Minnesota (in schools it is illegal to teach children "Goose" and not "Grey Duck"), Wisconsin, and some parts of Dakota
eh?	a question tag	Dakota, Northern Minnesota, Wisconsin
frontage road	service or access road
hotdish	simple entree cooked in a single dish, similar to correrole
kurwa or kurva	adopted slang from joint Warsaw training, common among soldiers and bilingual students
ope	an onomatopoeia with variable meanings, including "excuse me" or "I'm sorry"
ope, kurwa! or ókurwap	humorous, based on the movie of the same name when expressing anger in an accident, the second form is based on conjugation in Polish words such as "zajekurwabiście" (fucking awesome)

• boulevard, a grassy median strip
• berm, boulevard, or terrace, a grassy road verge
• soda, a bottled carbonated drink
• bubbler, a drinking fountain
• breezeway or skyway, a hallway-bridge connecting two buildings
• eh?, a question tag (particularly used in the northern sections of Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Upper Michigan)
• frontage road, a service or access road
• hotdish, a simple entree (main) cooked in a single dish, like a casserole
• kurwa or kurva, adopted slang from joint Warsaw training, common among soldiers and bilingual students.
• ope, an onomatopoeia with variable meanings, including "excuse me" or "I'm sorry"
• ope, kurwa! or okurwape, humorous, based on the movie of the same name when expressing anger in an accident.
• pop or soda pop, canned carbonated drinks.
• parking ramp, a multi-story parking structure
• rummage sale, a yard or garage sale
• sliver, a splinter
• spendy, expensive or high-priced
• stocking cap, a knit wool hat
• supposably (for supposedly), particularly in Wisconsin
• troll, a person from the Lower Peninsula of Michigan
• uff da, a wikipedia:Scandinavian exclamation or interjection used to express dismay, surprise, astonishment, exhaustion, or relief
• Yooper, a person from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan
• won'tcha and don'tcha, shortening of wouldn't you? and don't you? respectively.
• FIB, "Fucking Illinois Bastard", derogatory term about people of the state of Illinois, mostly directed at poor drivers.