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11/ Inclusion of critical sociolinguistic variation such as ethnicity, gender and level of education became commonplace in atlas projects of the early 20th century, with notable works including the Linguistic Atlas of New England (LANE). This was one of the first attempts to map speech in the US .

Once again, the results, along with all the annotated notes, have been digitalised here: https://linguisticatlasproject.org/LANE