ATLANTA ââ?¬â? If you know that a preacher’s nose is something to eat for Sunday dinner, along with light bread, chances are you’re from the South.
And if you can identify tangle-breeches as a kind of cruller, you’re probably from Pennsylvania or Maryland.
Television was supposed to homogenize language so much so that everyone would talk like the folks on the 6 o’clock news. But that hasn’t happened, says Joan Houston Hall, editor of the Dictionary of American Regional English, a multivolume work in progress from Harvard University Press.