[HN Gopher] American English Dialects
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       American English Dialects
        
       Author : petercooper
       Score  : 24 points
       Date   : 2023-08-04 19:29 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | f5ve wrote:
       | This is cool. My first thought is the choice of _dialect_ rather
       | than _accent_.
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       | I'm from NC and the Lumbee Indians had a way of speaking that was
       | unique and endearing. It feels like many places in the US are
       | losing that identity and the language of most areas is merging.
       | Especially in the west, the differences between peoples'
       | idiolects is usually greater than the differences between
       | regions' dialects.
        
       | bsimpson wrote:
       | One of the things I've wondered about my whole life:
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       | Does anyone know how to describe the R sound that millennial
       | girls from the west coast make? You can hear it in the word
       | "either" for the intro to The Button [1]. In my mind, it's
       | prominent in the Pacific Northwest and in the speech of Lizzie
       | Caplan (she's from L.A.).
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       | It's almost like they swallow the letter.
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       | [1] https://www.youtube.com/@cut/videos
        
       | jmclnx wrote:
       | Where I live, it is pretty much gone. No one under 40 knows the
       | few common words we used in our youth.
        
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