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To: prisoner6

There’s a band of “r” coloring (”Rhoticism”) about 50 miles wide North to South that stretches from Baltimore to the Rocky Mountains ~ just listen to it when someone says “wash” (as in Warshington) or “squash” (as in Squarsh).


13 posted on 10/09/2010 8:24:28 AM PDT by muawiyah ("GIT OUT THE WAY" The Republicans are coming)
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To: muawiyah

and there is fanger and wuhtuhr.


37 posted on 10/09/2010 8:45:08 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
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To: muawiyah

Natives of the Outer Banks of North Carolina have a unique accent that sounds Elizabethan.
And they refer to us tourists as ‘off islanders’.


41 posted on 10/09/2010 8:49:18 AM PDT by Vinnie (You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Jihads You)
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