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Crossword 054: Northern Cities Vowel Shift

Louise Rayner, John Knox's House, Edinburgh
Louise Rayner, John Knox's House, Edinburgh

For a learned account of the phenomenon on which this puzzle is based, see the Wikipedia article on “Inland Northern American English.”  I was born and raised in Kansas City, where English is spoken in its purest form; and so, when fate relocated me to Chicago for awhile, my ears were often offended by wrong vowels.  If you yourself use these wrong vowels, I know I can trust you to train yourself to stop.

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