Chuh Kaw Go, What Do You Really Sound Like?

Curious City

WBEZ Chicago

Society & Culture, Education, Public, Chicago, Arts, City, Radio, Curious, Investigation

4.8 • 642 Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2012

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

What is a Chicago accent and what do Chicagoans really sound like? Sound off with your phone and become part of the linguistic record.

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0:00.0	Planet Money helps you understand the economy.
0:02.7	We find the people at the center of the story.
0:05.1	Garbage in New York, that was like a controlled substance.
0:08.6	We show you how money influences everything.
0:11.6	Tell me what you like by telling me how you spend your money.
0:15.5	And we dig until we get answers.
0:17.5	I had a bad feeling you're going to bring that up.
0:19.4	Planet Money finds out.
0:20.7	All you have to do is listen. The Planet Money podcast from NPR.
0:28.3	You're listening to the Curious City podcast from WBEZ Chicago.
0:36.4	Here's a little story I had.
0:38.4	I had a helper this year.
0:40.6	He was from Ireland, and he's got that Irish broke, you know.
0:44.5	It was, wow, it's like, we were in the truck and we were talking, he said, we were talking about Alaska.
0:50.6	He goes, man, that place has a lot of boogs.
0:53.2	I says, boogs, what's a boog?
0:56.4	He goes, boogs.
0:57.6	Bugs.
1:00.9	He calls him boogs.
1:02.2	I couldn't understand them.
1:04.2	This week, we're talking accents.
1:10.1	The Chicago accent.
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