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.
and Susan Carroll-Clark replied : >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). So are there several varieties of Yorkshire accent, as it's a large county (my mother came from East Yorks.). My original point was that Northern English speech in general is very different from Cockney (working-class London) speech. Even I can tell the difference between a New York and a Deep South accent! Kate Bunting Cataloguing & Data Quality Librarian University of Derby _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
