Regional accents

[Joel S. Berson]

And I even checked Snopes.com!

I see I'm supported about crows, though:  "I told them I thought it
highly unlikely; but that there was well established scientific
evidence that several species of bird exhibit regional variability in
their calls, so you could not entirely rule out the possibility,"
quoting a famous linguist, John Wells.

Joel

At 12/28/2006 04:50 PM, Ben Zimmer wrote:
>On 12/28/06, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
>>
>>How did I miss this one for so long?  Prompted by today's "Sylvia"
>>daily comic strip.
>>
>> >Daily Mail
>> >http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_a
>> rticle_id=401843&in_page_id=1770
>> >Cows with regional accents? Pull the udder one
>[snip]
>
>Mark Liberman has exploded this one on Language Log:
>
>http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003507.html
>
>It's come up there several times since, as recently as today:
>
>http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003979.html
>
>Thanks, though, for the "Sylvia" tip. I've posted it to LL:
>
>http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003980.html
>
>
>--Ben Zimmer
>
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