The Question:What dialect are the characters in Guys and Dolls speaking? The Answer:"Runyonese." Guys and Dolls, a musical and motion picture, is based on the book of the same name by Damon Runyon. Runyon was distinguished for his sports columns and humorous short stories. Characters in his stories—which took place in New York City's Broadway area—used a distinctive slang-filled dialect that almost certainly never existed anywhere other than in his writings. To quote a 1949 review in TIME magazine:
The dialect is very often parodied by later writers. —The Fact Monster |
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