We don't say those words in these parts

 

I'm finally reading an adult book. It's a good story but it is slightly over my head and there are a lot of words I don't know. Thirteen per page, on average. I know this because I wrote them down and counted. Our friend was over and saw my list words and let me know that a lot of the words were out-of-date and a lot more were from the north-east. She kind of absolved me of feeling stupid because mostly it was my antiquated-northeastern vocabulary that was underdeveloped. Carol was intrigued. She was interested in the dialectical differences in vocabulary across regions. She is so smart. There are distinct dialects in the US to be sure. For example, a person speaking African-American Vernacular English and a person speaking Cajon Vernacular English would probably not understand each other at all. But we wonder, are there regions in the US with a whole book-full of words so different from the mainstream that they would be classified as "not from around here?" I don't think so but do plan to find out.