- Poll of 3,042 respondents.
- The Baltimore accent/dialect among those being used less in day to day language.
- Infographic included.
America has always been a patchwork of voices – drawls, twangs, clipped vowels, and long ones – but many people now admit they are softening, editing, or abandoning the very sounds that once rooted them to a place. From the fading Appalachian lilt to the vanishing SoCal vocal fry, the nation’s most recognizable dialects may be slipping into something closer to a smooth, uniform ‘General American.’
To understand just how quickly this linguistic sanding-down is happening, The Word Finder, a word search tool, surveyed 3,042 people, asking which accents or slang they use less, hear less, or have stopped saying entirely. What emerged is a portrait of a country that still loves its regional voices – but increasingly treats them like heirlooms rather than everyday tools.
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