Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Starting off close to home

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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