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Virginia Tech: What Did You Say? Abby Walker and Collaborator Receive Funding to Explore Dialects
April 28, 2022
BLACKSBURG, Virginia, April 28 (TNSRes) -- Virginia Tech issued the following news:

By Leslie King

I thank you will agree that we don't always hear the same words. And no, "thank" is not a typo. If you were to hear someone with a South-Central Appalachia dialect speak the actual sentence, "I think you will agree that we don't always hear the same words," you might hear the word "think" pronounced as "thank."

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