On an early summer evening a year ago, I’m sitting across the table from my wife at Mama Dip’s in Chapel Hill, a North Carolina institution known for the best …
In 2003 a linguistic authority with Harvard, an Englishmen Bert Vaux, led a study quantifying the dialects of the United States. He conducted an online survey with 50,000 participants on …
Well I’m glad ya’ll decided my accent is fine. Government scientists can speak Southern after all. Oak Ridge National Laboratory has announced that in response to complaints from staff, it’s …
Above: Old Main Building, South College Street, Auburn, Alabama In recently researching Southern Architecture, I came across the this nugget of information from Kenneth Severens in Southern Architecture: 350 Years …
This post was originally published at Mental Floss Lincoln Sadler eyes one of his favorite fishing spots, Great Rock, from a distance, but times his approach around an oncoming boat …
