Originally Posted by
Downix
ayuh, we do sound like weah from anothah country.
Actually my accent has blended over my years of moving, having some of my Maine and New Hampshire overtones mixed with Michigan, New York and Florida.
The dialects are all blending through a combination of factors: mobility of the population, mass communications, etc. However, it is a slow process and the more remote an area, the more pronounced the dialect.
It's amazing how much speech patterns can vary over a small area. I was raised in the lower portion of Illinois (near St. Louis), and our accent is different from that of the most southern part, the central part, and definitely different from Chicago.
We're fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance. - Japanese Proverb
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