linguistic geography
noun
: local or regional variations of a language or dialect studied as a field of knowledge
called also dialect geography
linguistic geographer
noun
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In Our Towns, co-written by the two journalists, the Question is not only a fun quirk of linguistic geography.
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Noble Ingram, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 June 2018
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Noble Ingram, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 June 2018
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