Are local accents doomed?

Language Log 2026-01-06

Summary:

Annie Joy Williams, "The Last Days of the Southern Drawl", The Atlantic 1/4/2026: By the end of my life, there may be no one left who speaks like my father outside the hollers and the one-horse towns. On Sundays after church, my family would pile into our crank-window GMC truck and head to Kentucky Fried […]

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Tags:

accents

Authors:

Mark Liberman

Date tagged:

01/06/2026, 14:18

Date published:

01/06/2026, 07:36