EP 50: Talking Dialects

For our 50th episode, we're taking a break from the frequent talk of policy, economics and technology to tour the local dialects of the United States, the spoken identifiers of a city or region. Why do people in Chicago, or St. Louis, or the Outer Banks of North Carolina sound the way they do? What's in a voice? And what's happening that's changing those dialects or accents forever? Walt Wolfram and "Talkin' Tar Heel" - https://www.talkintarheel.com/index.php Edward McClelland and "How to Speak Midwestern" - http://edwardmcclelland.com/ Library of Congress, The Center for Applied Linguistics Collection - https://www.loc.gov/collections/american-english-dialect-recordings-from-the-center-for-applied-linguistics/about-this-collection/ Garden & Gun's Whole Hog podcast feat. Walt Wolfram - https://soundcloud.com/garden-and-gun-magazine/episode-5-a-trip-to-s-town-alabama CityLab, Edward McClelland, "Why City Accents are Fading in the Midwest" - https://www.citylab.com/life/2018/04/why-city-accents-are-fading-in-the-midwest/555152/ CityLab, "Techies Are Destroying Raleigh's Southern Accent" - https://www.citylab.com/life/2015/07/techies-have-destroyed-raleighs-southern-accent/399734/ Podcast Engineering Show, Session 91, feat. Ben Brown - https://podcastengineeringschool.com/ben-brown-pes-091/ Atlas Obscura, "How a Fake British Accent Took Hollywood by Storm" - https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-a-fake-british-accent-took-old-hollywood-by-storm Philadelphia Story scene - https://youtu.be/nH2DKZ-2m74