dialects

[Bill Le May]

NPR's Steve Inskeep interviewed linguist Frank Beard on June 20th on Morning
Edition.  You can listen to it here:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5496546

At about 3:47 into the interview, Beard states "Once you get [westward] past
Ohio there are no accents."

I have no idea what differentiates an accent versus dialect and will watch
any comments with interest.

Bill Le May

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> Today, I was talking with some coworkers (we all work in a
> middle school), and one of them started talking about
> something he heard on NPR that claimed no one west of the
> Mississippi River has a dialect.  I said, "Everyone has a
> dialect."  We sort of spiraled into does not/does too, and
> then I dropped it.
>
> Anyone hear the story he was talking about?  Can you give me
> details?  And can someone verify for me:  Does everyone have
> a dialect?  If I'm wrong, I'll apologize tomorrow.
> Thanks!
> Jan
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