Christian Sci Monitor on "Southern drawl"

[Benjamin Zimmer]

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http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0920/p20s01-ussc.html
The Southern Drawl: Is It Spreading?
Some Linguists Say 'Yes' as More Northerners Move South, but Others
See Stiff Resistance to 'Y'all'
By PATRIK JONSSON
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Article features quotes from ADS'ers Dennis Preston and Erik Thomas
among others, though it's full of typically muddy (folk-)linguistic
descriptions of the "drawl" -- so ill-defined it's not surprising that
there's disagreement about whether it's spreading or receding.


--Ben Zimmer

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