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K SchneiderDescriptions of dialects for different areas of the United States, their origins, and some pronunciation and slang guides, usually referring to doughnuts, oddly enough.
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Ben HighfieldThis website has a dialect map that divides the U.S. into the 26 different dialects.
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The term, accent, is often incorrectly used in its place, but an accent refers only to the way words are pronounced, while a dialect has its own grammar, vocabulary, syntax, and common expressions as well as pronunciation rules that make it unique from other dialects of the same language.
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Coastal Southern (21)
Very closely resembles Virginia Piedmont but has preserved more elements from the colonial era dialect than any other region of the United States outside Eastern New England. Some local words are: catty-corner (diagonal), dope (soda, Coca-Cola), fussbox (fussy person), kernal (pit), savannah (grassland), Sunday child (illegitimate child). They call doughnuts cookies.
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bushed (tired)
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jelly doughnuts bismarks
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