Millennials are killing bad linguistics articles

There’s an article in Philadelphia Magazine called “Here’s how millennials are changing the Philadelphia accent” and it’s better than bad – it’s good! The author talks to linguist Betsy Sneller, who was on a recent episode of the Vocal Fries podcast, about her research into the changing Philly dialect. It’s chock full of good linguistic information, a note about how of course millennials are changing the accent (that’s what the younger generation does), and sound files! And somehow they managed to get through a whole article on Philadelphia and language without mentioning jawn. That’s not easy, well done. You should go check it out: https://www.phillymag.com/news/2018/12/04/philly-accent-millennials/

And here’s the link to the Vocal Fries episode: https://vocalfriespod.fireside.fm/35. You should go listen to all their episodes.

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