docoflove1974 Posted November 10, 2007 Report Share Posted November 10, 2007 Lancaster's Corollary to Beady's 10th Law of Social Harmonics: "Whatever the joke, someone won't get it." Ah... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faustus Posted January 31, 2008 Report Share Posted January 31, 2008 Some personal comments and some questions - opinions asked: My own reference with accents came when I left my rural yet cosmopolitan environment of a Midwest university town and went north to the Chicago area to attend school where I felt self-conscious about how I sounded. (I couldn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
docoflove1974 Posted February 1, 2008 Report Share Posted February 1, 2008 One item of interest is in the east coast pronunciation of "A" and "R" at the end of a word It clearly comes from England; we only have to listen to know this. Is this a precursor of the change of the English language much like what happened to the French language: Meaning phonetic sounds that don't match their written form.? Example: CUBA in the east from New York to (most prominently in Massachusetts) New Hampshire, becomes CUBE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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