“It’s PEE-can, not pick-AHN.” I’ve driven two hours from Durham to the southeastern corner of North Carolina where Elbie Powers, a pecan grower and president of the North Carolina Pecan …
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 …