"Authentic pronunciation"

[Joel S. Berson]

At 10/3/2010 01:20 PM, Paul Johnston wrote:
>Wasn't a study done that said that the dialects with the least that
>was localized to them and the most shared with others (which would
>make them appear "neutral" were actually Northern Iowa for
>vocabulary and Southern Iowa for pronunciation.

This is probably what I faintly remembered -- a bit south of Minnesota, though.

Joel

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