New Orleans English
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New Orleans English is American English native to the city of New Orleans and its metropolitan area. Native English speakers of the region actually speak a number of varieties, including the variety m
The characters "Vic & Nat'ly" by local cartoonist Bunny Matthews are what some might call Yats.
Seymore D. Fair; his name is a Yat derivative.
A Confederacy of Dunces
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A Confederacy of Dunces is a picaresque novel by American novelist John Kennedy Toole. It was published in 1980, eleven years after Toole's death. Published through the efforts of writer Walker Percy
New Orleans English
…speculation. Plausible origins of the accent are described in A. J. Liebling's book The Earl of Louisiana, in a passage that was used as a foreword to A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole's well-known posthumously published novel about New Orleans: There is a New Orleans city accent ... associated with downtown New…
First edition cover (1980), illustration by Ed Lindlof
Rex Parade Float of Ignatius Reilly commemorating "The Confederacy of Dunces"
Canal Street, New Orleans in the late 1950s; the D. H. Holmes store at right
A "Lucky Dogs" cart from the era of the novel