Collecting fond memories of Seattle's Yesler Terrace

Stories delight Jean Harris. They reaffirm her effort to collect and preserve oral histories from her fellow "alumni" of Yesler Terrace, the first racially integrated public-housing project in America.
From The Seattle Times, July 17, 2008

Do you sound like a Northwesterner?

How do you pronounce "caught" and "cot"? If they sound the same, you've got the regional lingo, a PSU professor says.
From The Oregonian, February 26, 2006.

Pacific Northwest Spoken Here

Could it be we really do talk different 'round here? Conventional wisdom holds that Northwest has NO accent. But linguistic researchers at the University of Washington and Portland State are making the case that the Northwest HAS a distinctive dialect. Audio available from the KUOW website. Program air date: July 7, 2005

A Northwest dialect? That's 'Goofy,' some say

Readers react to P-I story study suggesting people here have a distinctive voice. From the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, May 27, 2005.

Contrary to belief, local linguists say Northwest has distinctive dialect

Listen for the creaky voice, the strong "s" and the "low-back merger." Most language experts believe the Pacific Northwest has no distinctive voice, no particular style or dialect. But some local linguists think that's wrong -- or at least a long-standing academic prejudice that deserves a good challenge. From the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, May 20, 2005.