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Word for the Wise : Hoosier English
On October 5, we mark the 150th birth anniversary of James Whitcomb Riley, the Indiana writer remembered as “the poet of the common people.” Riley first attracted attention in the 1880s for a series of poems written in what has since come to be called “Hoosier English,” the dialect spoken in south-central Indiana.
