On Ocracoke Island, the only American dialect that is not identified as American

Re:On Ocracoke Island, the only American dialect that is not... by quietriot on Monday June 24, 2019 @02:11PM (#20266554)

I am an out of stater that moved to Raleigh. I saw a lecture about the language diversity within the state here at one time on our public access channel by a professor from North Carolina State University. One thing I remember from this was that in various parts across the state these three words can all end up with the same pronunciation:

pin, pen, pan

all sounding a bit like "pe~an"

https://english.chass.ncsu.edu/faculty_staff/wolfram https://linguistics.chass.ncsu.edu/thinkanddo/dialecteducati... https://linguistics.chass.ncsu.edu/thinkanddo/vonc.php#video... https://www.ncfieldfamily.org/nc-living/different-dialects-n... https://languageandlife.org/ https://ocracokepreservation.org/

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Re:On Ocracoke Island, the only American dialect that is not... by turk73 on Monday June 24, 2019 @09:41PM (#20270437)

I lived in RTP for 9 years. Never could figure those people out. Anywhere outside the cities everyone talked like they had a mouthful of marbles. Nothing really cultured going on there, just hoi polloi.

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