Wednesday, November 14, 2018

Quiz: How well do you know N.C. voices and dialects?

NC State recently produced a quiz to see just how well people recognize and can locate various dialects from across this great state. (And we have our fair share of disparate dialects, to be sure!)

How well would you do with the quiz? Click here to take it.

Listen to representative voices from specific regions and guess where the speaker lives. Each audio clip tells a story of our state’s unique language tradition and conveys a sense of how dialects dynamically transmit the rich history and culture of our state.

For the record, I got 5 out of 6 right. ("Going to the races" tripped me up.) You can't see it, but I'm doing this right about now:

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