Posted on 01/31/2008 6:22:13 AM PST by marthemaria
The bland, California suburban accent annoys me more than any other. “Like, oh my god!”
Especially in England. Traveling a hundred miles in England, you hear more change in peoples' accents than if you went from Louisiana to Brooklyn.
-ccm
Most countries have much greater dialect differences than the US, where English has only been spoken for 400 years. In Italy only 39% of the people speak standard Italian in the home, or so I've read, and elsewhere you also find local dialects that are very different from the standard language.
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