Dianne wrote: > Point was simply that it would be harder for an American to distinguish > between regional British accents, as it would be hard for someone from > England to distinguish between say, Michigan and Ohio.
Those states in particular are a really good case in point. There isn't an Ohio accent--there are three or four, at least. There's the Cleveland/Northern accent (fairly nasal, somewhat akin to the typical Michigan accent), the Appalachian accent (SE part of the state, akin to West Virginia and eastern Kentucky), and two Midwestern accents --one a little more generic than the other (which involves people saying "warsh" for wash and "crick" for creek). Columbus, where I'm originally from, gets all four. Susan _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
