Editing Philadelphia (section)

===Dialect===
{{Main|Philadelphia English}}
The traditional Philadelphia accent is considered by some [[linguist]]s to be the most distinctive accent in North America.<ref name="Fades Out">[https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/02/opinion/sunday/the-sound-of-philadelphia-fades-out.html?_r=0 New York Times Sunday Review, Loose Ends] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140410041829/http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/02/opinion/sunday/the-sound-of-philadelphia-fades-out.html?_r=0 |date=April 10, 2014 }} "The Sound of Philadelphia Fades Out" Daniel Nester March 1, 2014</ref> The Philadelphia dialect, which is spread throughout the [[Delaware Valley]] and [[South Jersey]], is part of a larger [[Mid-Atlantic American English]] family, a designation that also includes the [[Baltimore accent]]. Additionally, it shares many similarities with the [[New York accent]]. Owing to over a century of linguistic data collected by researchers at the [[University of Pennsylvania]] under sociolinguist [[William Labov]], the Philadelphia dialect has been one of the best-studied forms of [[American English]].<ref>{{cite journal |first=Matthew J. |last=Gordon |doi=10.1177/0075424206294308 |title=Interview with William Labov |journal=Journal of English Linguistics |volume=34 |year=2006 |pages=332–51 |issue=4 |s2cid=144459634 |issn=0075-4242 }}</ref><ref name="Avril_2012">{{cite news |title=Penn linguist Labov wins Franklin Institute award |author=Tom Avril |url=http://www.philly.com/philly/health/20121022_Penn_linguist_Labov_wins_Franklin_Institute_award.html |newspaper=The Philadelphia Inquirer |date=October 22, 2012 |access-date=October 23, 2012 |archive-date=October 24, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121024045341/http://www.philly.com/philly/health/20121022_Penn_linguist_Labov_wins_Franklin_Institute_award.html |url-status=live }}</ref>{{efn|1= E.g., in the opening chapter of ''The Handbook of Language Variation and Change'' (ed. Chambers et al., Blackwell, 2002), J. K. Chambers writes that "variationist sociolinguistics had its effective beginnings only in 1963, the year in which William Labov presented the first sociolinguistic research report"; the dedication page of the ''Handbook'' says that Labov's "ideas imbue every page".}} The accent is especially found within the Irish American and Italian American working-class neighborhoods.<ref>{{cite news |last=Rocca |first=Mo |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/philadelphia-mid-atlantic-dialect-accent-democratic-national-convention-2016/ |title=An earful and accent that's distinctly Philly |publisher=[[CBS Interactive Inc.]] |date=July 26, 2016 |access-date=February 14, 2017 |archive-date=February 15, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170215114603/http://www.cbsnews.com/news/philadelphia-mid-atlantic-dialect-accent-democratic-national-convention-2016/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Philadelphia also has its own unique collection of [[neologism]]s and slang terms.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://phillytalk.com/philly-slang |title=Philly Slang |publisher=PhillyTalk.com |access-date=February 15, 2017 |archive-date=February 15, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170215211047/http://phillytalk.com/philly-slang |url-status=live }}</ref>