Re:When Did Americans Lose Their British Accents?
by pbhjpbhj on Monday January 28, 2013 @09:48PM
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"City" I'm in is within 10 miles of the next city and it's quite popular to make fun of each others different accents and propensity for certain dialect.
I do love it when you listen to someone talk and you can hear where they're from; occasionally I can do a Henry Higgins (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Fair_Lady) and hear the overtones of where they moved on to as well. A strange delight.
The town where I grew up has a couple of dialect words that are only spoken by the working class in the environs. Fascinating stuff.
I do love it when you listen to someone talk and you can hear where they're from; occasionally I can do a Henry Higgins (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Fair_Lady) and hear the overtones of where they moved on to as well. A strange delight.
The town where I grew up has a couple of dialect words that are only spoken by the working class in the environs. Fascinating stuff.