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Morak99
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20 November 2009 at 2:29am | IP Logged

There's also differences between how noticible each accent is. New York, Boston, Southern California, and most of the Southern accents are all parodied and sterotyped frequently becuase of thier distinct features, but there's not as much mention of Rocky Mountain, Northwest, Midwest, and Philadelphia/Baltimore/Washington area accents. The differences are so subtle- in my native Philadelphia accent, we pronounce water as wuh-ter or wuh-tor, but every other word is the same as the standard you see on TV or hear on radio.
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07 December 2009 at 6:51pm | IP Logged

Lootrock wrote:

Another distinct accent that I think has been left out is the Oakland, California one. This one always makes me laugh and it sounds a bit southern to me. I don't remember who mentioned southern accents in California, but is this one of them? The rap group N.W.A. was from Oakland as well as the rapper Too $hort who has a verrry thick Oakland accent. They pronounce their i's as e's like steel instead of still, and when they pronounce words with "r" in it they sound quite strange, I don't know how to explain.

N.W.A. was from LA. Too Short is, in fact, from Oakland... but you should clarify that you're talking about accents within the African American community of Oakland. It wouldn't apply to others.
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Message 35 of 36

07 December 2009 at 7:16pm | IP Logged

Am I the only one to find this use of "dialect" dubious when in fact it is "accent" that is meant in most of the cases discussed above? No offence to the original poster, this use seems common.
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31 December 2009 at 10:51pm | IP Logged

William Camden wrote:

In the UK, radio and TV broadcasters used to be selected who used RP (Received Pronunciation). This was a standardised, middle-classish kind of British English. Sometimes it, and/or the vocabulary used, went over the heads of listeners.

Really? On the BBC I only ever hear the standard upper-class London accent.

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