dialect term · North Carolina

Boot

The luggage compartment of a car.

Recorded region

Coastal Plain

Tradition

Traditional / unattributed

Topic

Local language

Source

Walt Wolfram, “6 Expressions Say it All: Language Variation in the Tar Heel State,” NC State News, June 28, 2018.

NC State Language and Life Project linguistic research.

Source publication: 2018 · Record s-5c73b0c6f476

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