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Andy Bechtel
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Journalism professor at UNC-Chapel Hill. NOLA native, Durham denizen, lifetime member of ACES: the Society for Editing. editdesk.wordpress.com/
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A lesson in the grammar of barbecue.

A new story quoting Governor Roy Cooper of North Carolina: “Just know that I told Secretary Yellen that in North Carolina, barbecue is a noun and not a verb."
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Just so we're not spreading a myth, this is just is a local language claim, not a factual thing. The verb "barbecue" dates to 1661 in English (OED) and predates the noun by almost 40 years.

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Andy Bechtel
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Journalism professor at UNC-Chapel Hill. NOLA native, Durham denizen, lifetime member of ACES: the Society for Editing. editdesk.wordpress.com/
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