A downstate dictionary?

well, sorta, albeit with a few gems.

To this day, traces of Northern Irish speech can be heard in the Lower Midwest. The construction of needs without a past participle — as in “that needs washed” (or “that needs worshed”) — goes back to Ulster. So does the word “run” for a small stream.

And I do say “melk.”

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