Source: Bob Buckley,. MYFOX8, 7/30/21

 To say someone has “A Southern accent” is to not understand the richness that is dialect. And if you live in North Carolina, you’ve hit the mother lode of dialects. “There are at least five or six major dialects in North Carolina,” said Walt Wolfram, a linguist at North Carolina State University who has studied language and how it’s used for 50 years.

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