Regional accents

[Benjamin Zimmer]

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_article_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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