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[dreamer_easy]

Phonological variation in English accents. (Click around the country and see which regions sound as though they have "no" accent to you.)

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[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

Weird. So many regions with the same 'a' cropping up - and near neighbours being totally different. Ent langwidges brilliunt.

[qthewetsprocket.livejournal.com]

*has seen that site before but never played with it*

*plays with it*

eeeee. :)

it still boggles me that a country the size of my home state has more regional dialects than my entire nation...and has influenced all its speech patterns (ie, the boston/new englander accents are directly descended from east anglia; the appalachian accents from virginia to oklahoma are scotland's fault; and much of rural southern grammar structure can be blamed on yorkshire ('he come with us; i weren't long out back; we ain't been livin' out here but two or three year' now').

btw, if you can ever track it down, robert macneil's series the story of english is an excellent (and entertaining) resource.

[purrdence.livejournal.com]

Some of those accents from the South West areas didn't sound to dissimilar to some West Aussie accents - but it has been said that the Perth accent is more 'English-like'* to due to larger numbers of Brits settling in Perth.

*Certainly less ocker, anyway. The moment Tegan opened her mouth, I could tell she wasn't from Perth.

[mrteufel.livejournal.com]

I agree. The samples from the eastern end of the SW especially wouldn't sound strange coming from a local, or at least a TV Aussie.