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This volume explores the linguistic complexities and critical issues of the Midland dialect area of the USA, and contains a unique data-based set of investigations of the Midlands dialect. The authors demonstrate that the large central part of the United States known colloquially as the "Heartland," geo-culturally as the "Midwest," and linguistically as the "Midland" is a very real dialect area, one with regional cohesiveness, social complexity, and psycho-emotional impact. The individual essays problematize historical origins, track linguistic markers of social identity over time and across...

A woman copes with a troublesome pregnancy and the mortality of her mother. Melinda Moore shows us how the crows respond. Simon Bleaken reminds us that tenant rights have always been a tricky issue, especially when the landlord wants to use the tenants to replace his dead family. Courtney Floyd introduces us to an Albuquerque private detective who has a penchant for riddles and supernatural mysteries. What would happen if solar flares rendered all electrical systems useless? K.S. Hardy imagines the clockwork world that results. Lee Clark Zumpe reminds us that the ghost of H.P. Lovecraft still...