worldwide accents of English

Beverly Flanigan flanigan at OHIO.EDU
Sat Sep 27 16:45:13 UTC 2003


The Black English is also terrible, Brooklyn is bad, and the "General
American" doesn't sound like anyone I know.  I can only assume the British
and Irish voices are OK.

At 10:42 AM 9/27/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>Joan and Luanne should put their oar in these waters.  USA and Canada get
>short shrift.  There is nothing from the mountain south or the piedmont,
>nothing from New England, north central or southwest or midlands.  This
>site surely (as advised) needs work.
>
>David K. Barnhart, Editor/Publisher
>The Barnhart DICTIONARY COMPANION
>Lexik at highlands.com



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