During the 2016 presidential election, broad support for Donald Trump came from most communities in Appalachia, where he received 63 percent of the vote. A great deal of national attention was ...
Editor’s note: Read the full report on West Virginia University linguist Kirk Hazen’s foray into Pineville with his West Virginia Dialect Project on Page 7A. United Way of Southern West Virginia ...
Below is a list of speech features studied by the West Virginia Dialect Project, some of which remain common and others that have become rare. Led by linguist Kirk Hazen, the project’s researchers ...
The founder of the West Virginia Dialect Project hopes to debunk some of the myths about the way Appalachian people speak and instill pride in a rich, oft-maligned culture. The latest Senate health ...
In the corner of Appalachia where Tennessee meets Virginia, where this photo was taken, dialect is more southern. Mountaineers like to talk and you can tell what part of Appalachia people come from by ...
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