Well, American dialects have been studied for a hundred years or so.

This African American Vernacular English shares most of its grammar and vocabulary with other dialects of English. But it is distinct in many ways, and it is more different from standard English than any other dialect spoken in continental North America.

But unlike European countries, America has never finished a map of the United States, only the eastern United States is covered and a few spots here and there.

Well, American dialects have been studied for a hundred years or so.

I have resisted the term sociolinguistics for many years, since it implies that there can be a successful linguistic theory or practice which is not social.

We focus upon pairs of words very often which are the same in some areas and different in other areas.

However, research in the years that followed found that in many of its important features, African American Vernacular English was becoming not less, but more different from other dialects.