American accent test

Mark Mandel thnidu at GMAIL.COM
Mon Mar 24 16:10:19 UTC 2008


Yat? Never heard of that; please enlighten me.

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On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 10:52 AM, Janis Vizier Nihart <tarheel at myviscom.com>
wrote:

> I took the quiz.  Now I understand how I, with a part Cajun/part Yat =
> accent was thought to be from Philadelphia. Both(Cajun and Yat) are =
> southern accents, although not your standard southern twangy accent.
>

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