Washington Post on Alaskan accents ... if there is such a thing

[James Harbeck]

To hear more of a younger Sarah Palin, unfailingly fronting -ing and
displaying other dialectal (or idiolectal?) traits full flush, see
her give the sports segment of a local news program in the 1980s:
<http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/toby_harnden/blog/2008/09/17/sarah_palin_as_sports_anchor_starring_in_first_political_ad>http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/toby_harnden/blog/2008/09/17/sarah_palin_as_sports_anchor_starring_in_first_political_ad
or
http://tinyurl.com/4agqyo

James Harbeck.

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