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Talk Like a Tar Heel: North Carolina Place NamesListen to North Carolina place names pronounced by local authors, Bland Simpson and Michael McFee by clicking on the county name on the state map or in the list below. Read the "Guide to Pronouncing County Names" by John L. Sanders, former director of the Institute of Government at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Contact the North Carolina Collection with your questions, comments, and suggestions of other North Carolina names that you would like to hear pronounced: nccref@unc.edu
North
Carolina Cities, Counties, Towns, Mountains, and More: Pronunciations
About
Bland Simpson Michael McFee
was born in Asheville, North Carolina, in 1954, and grew up in the small
town of Arden in the Blue Ridge Mountains. He received his B.A. (1976)
and M.A. (1978) from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
He has been poet-in-residence at Cornell and Lawrence Universities, and
is now a Professor of English at his alma mater, where he teaches poetry
writing and contemporary North Carolina literature. Technical Note: The recordings of North Carolina County names are saved as MP3 files. Most current audio players, including RealPlayer, Windows Media Player, and QuickTime for Macintosh, can play MP3s. Visit mpeg.org for more information about playing MP3s (http://www.mpeg.org/MPEG/MPEG-audio-player.html). The recordings of Bland Simpson and Michael McFee were made by recording engineer John Loy in the Manuscripts Department's John M. Rivers Audio Preservation Studio.  |
