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Longtime N&O journalist Pam Nelson writes about language use and misuse and answers questions about grammar and style. Readers can weigh in on what annoys them, too. Think of this as your online grammar class. Send e-mail to Pam at pam.nelson@newsobserver.com.

Dialects: We talk funny everywhere

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I love North Carolina dialects. I have one myself -- western Piedmont. I ran across this nifty site today. Take the North Carolina Dialect Quiz and see if you can distinguish among North Carolina regional dialects. One speaker on the quiz sounds just like my mother, born in 1929 in Hickory.

You can also learn more about why people in parts of North Carolina speak the way they do. The quiz is part of the North Carolina Language and Life Project.

If you want to hear more examples of authentic North Carolina dialect, go to the International Dialects of English Archive. My kinfolks sound like North Carolina #17.

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dertghj kas kasadet sancısına ne iyi gelirhadi garierotik film izle - fersbuk - aşk falı - dertyli - cinsel pozisyonlar - henbi sıcak sohbet - gerdsacvbnm
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I found it interesting how

I found it interesting how you could tell if people were from different counties. It seemed like people I knew from Johnston County talked "faster".

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We are free to talk about

We are free to talk about anything in the freedom society country. THat' why I love living in western apotek online countries.

Treasure our dialects

Thanks for sharing these links to dialect projects. What a treasure trove! When I taught high school English NE NC I would ask my students to collect colloquialisms from their parents and grandparents. These charming sayings -- "mash the button," "cut off the lights," "get up with" -- when combined with their particular accents were priceless. Funny thing, though, is that the students didn't see anything charming about 'em. That's just how they talked. I love the English language and hope we don't weed out the charm -- dialects and colloquialsims -- as we teach the standard form. I am from West Virginia and have traveled a lot. I must have developed an ear for dialect because I got every one of the Quiz questions correct. What fun!

To jump another rabbit, as

To jump another rabbit, as my dad used to say, I would use between rather than among in the case above.

Growing up here..

I found it interesting how you could tell if people were from different counties. It seemed like people I knew from Johnston County talked "faster". I grew up in Durham, and have been "chastised" for how slow I talk since childhood. I wonder what accounts for the local variance?

Re: Growing up here ...

I can only pick out regions in North Carolina. I know that someone from the southern mountains sounds different from someone who grew up on the Outer Banks. I think our speech is being homogenized, and I am sorry about that. I don't wish to be thought of as an ignorant yokel so I have a different accent from the one I probably had when I was 12.  

Pam Nelson

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