Consonants SHR

In words such as shrimp, shrink, and shrub, many white Southerners produce  instead of . Early reports of this feature were from the South Atlantic states, especially Virginia. In the Gulf States, LAGS found it to be widespread but most heavily concentrated in the Piedmont and Piney Woods regions. Surprisingly, LAGS found little correlation of   with sex, age, education, or social status.