It's easy for many of us here in Washington to complain about learning a new language and the accent that goes with it. After all, we don't have an accent, right? Wrong. Or so says Jennifer Ingle, a linguist who did her studies at the University of Washington.
Check out the link below to see a transcript and (even better!) hear the recording and the accent variations that Ingle found.
Pacific Northwest Dialect Spoken Here
The article is a bit old, but only recently came into my life and is still quite interesting. I was surprised by the truth in it, what do you think?
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