Diverting dialects in USA
Tom Zurinskas
truespel at HOTMAIL.COM
Thu Mar 29 04:52:59 UTC 2012
How could it be?
"American regional dialects are pulling further apart from each other, rather than moving closer together"
http://tinyurl.com/divertingdialects
or
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2012/03/28/votes-and-vowels-a-changing-accent-shows-how-language-parallels-politics/
Tom Zurinskas, Conn 20 yrs, Tenn 3, NJ 33, now Fl 9.
See how English spelling links to sounds at http://justpaste.it/ayk
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