Regionality of American accents

[Jonathan Lighter]

In California, it's just the opposite.

JL

On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 11:51 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:

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> On Sep 11, 2012, at 10:57 AM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
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> > This, from another list, made me laugh:
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> >> Shortly after I moved from California to Baton Rouge, Louisiana for
> >> grad school, a woman said to me: "You have an unusual accent. Are
> >> you from North Baton Rouge?"
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> > Joel
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> Maybe she was operating with a local version of that famous New Yorker
> cover map and California is just considered part of greater North Baton
> Rouge.
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> LH
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