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How to Talk Yankee
- Narrated by: Robert Bryan, and Tim Sample
- Length: 23 mins
- Categories: Children's Audiobooks, Education & Learning
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Publisher's Summary
This is one of the best-selling New England dialectal recordings of all time, in continuous production since it’s release on the Bert and I label in the fall of 1982. According to Tim, this is most likely the album that he and Marshall Dodge would have recorded if not for Dodge’s untimely death a few months earlier.
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Overall2 out of 5 stars
- Fred
- 03-09-11
Synopsis sounded interesting ... but ...
Some people might like this kind of stuff, but I only listen for about 8 minutes. Corn-pone humor.