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Curious City: samples of the Chicago accent

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Curious City: samples of the Chicago accent

The Curious City team has done it again! With the help of Corrine McCarthy, a linguist at George Mason University who has studied the Chicago accent, they listened to 361 samples of pure Chi-town talk to find out what put the DA in "Da Bears!"

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