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To: Salamander
That's fascinating. I've had an interest in accent and dialect for most of my life.

Where I live:

"Eastern New England English encompasses the Boston accent, the Maine accent, and, according to some sources, the Rhode Island accent. Eastern New England English is famously non-rhotic, meaning it drops the r sound everywhere except before a vowel: thus, in words like car, card, fear, and chowder (About this sound listen). The phrase Park the car in Harvard Yard—dialectally transcribed [pʰäːk ðə ˈkʰäːɹ‿ɪn ˈhäːvəd ˈjäːd]—is commonly used as a shibboleth, or speech indicator, for the non-rhotic Eastern New England dialect, which contrasts with the generally rhotic dialects elsewhere in North America.[16] In all of Eastern New England, except Rhode Island, words like caught and cot are pronounced identically (both are often rounded, thus: About this sound [kʰɒːt]), because those two vowel sounds have fully merged.[17] A phenomenon called Canadian raising occurs throughout Eastern New England, causing writer to have a different stressed vowel sound than rider, and for the verb house to have a different vowel sound than the noun house. /aʊ/ and /uː/ have relatively back starting positions. The horse–hoarse merger is still present to some extent in some areas, and the Mary–marry–merry merger is largely not present."

Source: Wikipedia

121 posted on 04/23/2016 2:17:41 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: trisham

I will never forget the family vacation we took up the coast when I was 15.

No one understood me.

I swear I’d stumbled into Golden Pond because the store owner was named “Narrrrr-mun!” and his Yankee wife kept imitating Hepburn, when calling to the back room, asking if they had any “fyil-um”.

I never did get more film for my camera so from MA to ME, I took no photos.

That tourist trap did, however, feature the finest collection of dried, reeking, mutilated Skates, posing as “Jenny Hanuvuhs” anywhere, I’d reckon.

:D


122 posted on 04/23/2016 2:23:24 PM PDT by Salamander (We're pain, we're steel, a plot of knives...)
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