From several sources on Facebook, a pointer to a Mental Floss piece from July 29th on American dialects — by a linguist, written for a non-linguist audience. Arika Okrent talking about three phenomena in commonly disparaged dialects: Appalachian a-prefixing; Southern American English liketa; and African-American English stressed bin (It seems to be Mental Floss week on … Continue reading Dialect notes for geeks