When someone thinks of Ohio, three cities come to mind. Columbus, the capital, located in the center of Ohio, Cleveland in the Northeast, and finally, Cincinnati forms part of the tri state area in the Southwest. Why is this relevant in a project looking at language? Location is important when researching regional dialects. In ‘Dialects in Schools and Communities’, Adger, Wolfram, and Christian (2007) refer to dialects as “a variety of language” (p. 1). This means that regional dialects are a variety of language depending on location. Regions geographically further from one another will often have more variation. For example, a Cincinnati dialect would differ more from a Cleveland than Columbus dialect. A dialect map in ‘Dialects in
