Poll: Majority Want to Make ‘North Carolinian’ An Official Dialect

Poll: Majority Want to Make ‘North Carolinian’ An Official Dialect

“It’s a hoot and a holler away!” Tourists on a road trip through West Virginia’s country roads may be confused by this reply from a local after having asked for directions. In fact, “holler” is a remote road or area to West Virginians. Out-of-staters may have just been hoping for a simple ‘left or right at the next junction’! While many people across America still use phrases such as these, and speak in their region’s own dialect, recent studies…