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Video: US English Dialects Mapped
« on: November 26, 2013, 06:24:05 PM »
http://deadspin.com/the-many-dialects-of-american-english-in-one-charming-1471963562

Nice job presenting an interesting subject in a video.

(I didn't see this already posted on UKY; sorry if I missed it!)


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Re: Video: US English Dialects Mapped
« Reply #1 on: November 27, 2013, 05:49:57 PM »
Along the same lines, this dialect blog:
http://dialectblog.com/


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Re: Video: US English Dialects Mapped
« Reply #2 on: November 27, 2013, 06:01:42 PM »
 :D I love stuff like this.
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Re: Video: US English Dialects Mapped
« Reply #3 on: November 27, 2013, 06:05:15 PM »
To hear US, Canadian and other international dialects of English:
http://www.dialectsarchive.com/


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Re: Video: US English Dialects Mapped
« Reply #4 on: November 30, 2013, 02:37:35 PM »
I'm changing my dialect to talk like Joe Pesci does in the film Casino. The Desert Scene is proving especially helpful :)

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Re: Video: US English Dialects Mapped
« Reply #5 on: November 30, 2013, 03:50:09 PM »
To hear US, Canadian and other international dialects of English:
http://www.dialectsarchive.com/

Wow! That is a super cool website!!!  I could spend hours listening to all those accents and dialects....

....I'd better wait until February, I've got too much to do before then.   ;D
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Re: Video: US English Dialects Mapped
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Re: Video: US English Dialects Mapped
« Reply #8 on: December 06, 2013, 03:58:33 PM »
More:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2013/12/02/what-dialect-to-do-you-speak-a-map-of-american-english/

That is really cool! 

So, as I live just east of San Francisco, am I Pacific Northwest or Pacific Southwest, or maybe a little San Francisco Urban?  Hmmmmm, well, I ain't, like, a Valley Girl, ya know!  But all those high muckatymucks really hit pay dirt with this one!  ;D
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