An American linguistic archive has been documenting the ‘speechways of the folk’ for nearly 100 years

<p><strong>Farmer:&nbsp;</strong>Many people pronounce that&nbsp;<em>February</em>&nbsp;different from what I&rsquo;ve always heard it pronounced: &ldquo;Feberary,&rdquo; &ldquo;Febuary.&rdquo; I don&rsquo;t know how they get that kind of&nbsp;<em>Uh</em>&nbsp;on that&nbsp;<em>U.</em></p> <p><strong>Patrick Cox:</strong>&nbsp;It&rsquo;s 1960. The man being questioned is a retired farmer. The man asking the questions is a linguist. He asks the farmer question after question: about months, days, the weather, the rooms in the house, the furniture.</p> <p><strong>Interviewer:</strong>&nbsp;This is what?</p> <p><a href="https://subtitlepod-62956.medium.com/an-american-linguistic-archive-has-been-documenting-the-speechways-of-the-folk-for-nearly-100-961e9f50574d"><strong>Read More</strong></a></p>