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Celebrating 32 Years in Ocracoke!
Article contributed by Asha Thurman and Rebecca Cantor For 32 consecutive years, graduate students from the NC State Linguistics program visited the island of Ocracoke...
Documenting 4th Ward History in Raleigh, NC
Article Contributed by Haley Kinsler Students in the linguistics department, Brody McCurdy and Haley Kinsler, have begun work in partnership with local residents on an...
‘We Will Speak’ Documentary Showing with NC State Libraries
Join NC State University Libraries on April 2nd at 7pm for a documentary film screening of We Will Speak, followed by a post-screening Q&A and...Dialect Button Fever!
You love them. We’ve restocked them. If you’ve come to see us at the North Carolina State Fair, you may have taken home a dialect...
“Battle of the Southernisms” – The Winners
You voted. Here are the results: Coming in third place with 16.3% of the favorite Southernism vote: Cattywampus [Kat-ee-wom-puhs] adjective adverb Skyrocketing in popularity to...
Voices of Chatham: A Rural North Carolina Community’s Determination to Cope with Inevitable Change
“We have to understand that everything has to grow and has to change. Anything that doesn’t change is stagnant, and you will die from your...