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Thread #133266   Message #3022011
Posted By: artbrooks
02-Nov-10 - 05:45 PM
Thread Name: Mid-Atlantic (accent) ~~ Why?
Subject: RE: Mid-Atlantic (accent) ~~ Why?
Mid-Atlantic sounds all wet to me. As previously noted, there is really no such thing in the US. There are (IMHO) four distinct regional accents in the US - Southern, New York, New England and TV-Californian, distinguished by both pronunciation and word usage. There are local variants within these, mostly discernible only by locals...for example, a person from Boston would be able to (or claim to be able to) distinguish a Bostonian from a Providencer but someone from Ohio would not.

And Joe...ya don't tak like sumbuddy from Visconsin, ya heer? Ya hey!