All 4 Uses of
migrant
in
Do You Speak American?
- Interestingly, a new dialect has been emerging in North Carolina, where Hispanic migrants have mixed Spanish with Southern rural speech and created, in Walt Wolfram's terms, "an Hispanic Southern variety of English.†
Chpt 5migrants = those who moves from one place to another
- Immigrant is a word coined in America, for migrants who came in, rather than went out, the meaning of emigrant, which was how Europe saw it.†
Chpt 5 *
- It is haunting to look at the photos of these black people, their work-worn bodies in shabby clothing, yet their faces to us expressing a dignity that seems to be absent from the faces of some of the gaunt, half-starved white migrants in the famous photographs of the dust-bowl victims of the same Depression years.†
Chpt 6
- Many of these migrants are well educated and skilled: 30 percent professionals and managers, 19 percent with college degrees.†
Chpt 6
Definition:
a person (or animal) that moves from one place to another -- sometimes seasonally -- sometimes for work