For example, in trisyllabic words, there are four possible tone patterns: 메누리 ('daughter-in-law') 어무이 ('mother') 원어민 ('native speaker') 오래비 ('elder brother') Grammar The Gyeongsang dialect maintains a trace of Middle Korean: the grammar of the dialect distinguishes between a yes-no question and a wh-question, while Standard Modern Korean does not. With an informal speech level, for example, yes-no questions end with "-a (아)" and wh-questions end with "-o (오)" in the Gyeongsang dialect, whereas in standard speech both types of questions end in either "-ni (니)" or "-eo (어)" without a difference between the types of questions. For example: "밥 뭇나?" [Bap mún-na?] or "밥 묵읏나?" [Bap múgeut-na?] as opposed to "밥 먹었니?" [Bap meogeot-ní?] or "밥 먹었어?" [Bap meogeo-sséo?] (casual greetings in Korean.) — "Did you have a meal?" or "Did you eat?" "머 뭇노?" [Meo mun-no?] as opposed to "뭘 먹었니?" [Meol meogeot-ni?] or "뭘 먹었어?" [Meo meogeosseo?] — "What did you eat?" Notice that the first question can be answered with a yes or no, while the latter question requires detail explanation of the food eaten. However, -no also works as a rhetorical question ending. "이거 와 이래 맛있노" [I-geo wa irae mat-itno.] - Literal meaning "Why is this so delicious?", actual meaning "This is so delicious." This phenomenon can also be observed in tag questions, which are answered with a yes or no. "Eopje, geújya?" (업제, 그쟈?) as opposed to "Eopji, geureotchí?" (없지, 그렇지?) — "It isn't there, is it?" Sociolinguistics From the Park Chung-hee to the Kim Young-sam governments (1961–1997), the Gyeongsang dialect had greater prominence in the Korean media than other dialects as all of the presidents (except Choi Kyu-hah) were natives of Gyeongsang province. That is why some South Korean politicians or high-rank officials have been misunderstood for not trying to convert to the Seoul accent, which is considered standard in South Korea. However, when former president Kim Young-sam was in office, his public speeches were the subject of much scrutiny and his pronunciation elicited both criticism and amusement. He once mistakenly pronounced '경제 (Gyeongje, 經濟: meaning 'economy')' as '갱제 (Gaengje: a Gyeongsang pronunciation of the older generation for '경제')' and '외무부 장관 (oemubu-janggwan, 外務部長官: meaning 'foreign minister')' as '애무부 장관 (aemubu-janggwan, 愛撫部長官: meaning 'making out minister')'. A humorous anecdote arose from another of his public speeches where audiences were said to have been surprised to hear that he would make Jeju a