My God mate - that's a can of worms you've opened.
Even I know of (Kennedy) Boston and 'Last Picture Show' Texan. I
suspect you wouldn't want to hear Appalachian or Ozark.
The is a tower of Babel and we're in it.
Andrew Fildes
afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
On 02/04/2007, at 8:06 PM, Phil wrote:
> So how many recognisable dialects are there in the USA, I can only
> spot,
> deep Southern, New York and what I call normal American, in the UK
> I can
> pick out, Welsh, Scotish, Irish, Giordie, Brummie, Scouse, general
> north
> England (Yorkshire, Manchester) South West and Norfolk sound the
> same to me
> (carrot crunchers) and of course all the variations of cockney and
> the South
> East, I find all the accents quite fasinating and regularly
> practice them
> all to the amusement of the kids who are rewarded if they guess
> them all
> correctly (they never do)
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