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Listen to examples of regional accents and dialects from across the UK on the British Library's 'Sounds Familiar?' website; A national map of the regional dialects of American English; IDEA Archived 2006-09-01 at the Wayback Machine – International Dialects of English Archive; English Dialects – English Dialects around the world
— Listen to examples of regional accents and dialects from across the UK on the British Library's 'Sounds Familiar' website 'Hover & Hear' Accents of English from Around the World Archived 2011-04-29 at the Wayback Machine, listen and compare side by side instantaneously. International Dialects of English Archive
Regional dialects in North America are historically the most strongly differentiated along the Eastern seaboard, due to distinctive speech patterns of urban centers of the American East Coast like Boston, New York City, and certain Southern cities, all of these accents historically noted by their London-like r-dropping (called non-rhoticity), a feature gradually receding among younger ...
The clipped, non-rhotic English accents of George Plimpton and William F. Buckley Jr. were vestigial examples. [8] Marianne Williamson , a self-help author and a 2020 and 2024 Democratic presidential candidate , has a unique accent that, following her participation in the first 2020 presidential debate in June 2019, [ 54 ] [ 55 ] [ 56 ] was ...
The accents of Texas are diverse, for example with important Spanish influences on its vocabulary; [52] however, much of the state is still an unambiguous region of modern rhotic Southern speech, strongest in the cities of Dallas, Lubbock, Odessa, and San Antonio, [4] which all firmly demonstrate the first stage of the Southern Shift, if not ...
The U.S. has dozens of distinct regional accents reflecting not just place, but also race and ancestry. For example, the New Yorker accent is one of the most visible regional accents in American ...
Inland Northern (American) English, [1] also known in American linguistics as the Inland North or Great Lakes dialect, [2] is an American English dialect spoken primarily by White Americans throughout much of the U.S.
The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) can be used to represent sound correspondences among various accents and dialects of the English language. These charts give a diaphoneme for each sound, followed by its realization in different dialects. The symbols for the diaphonemes are given in bold, followed by their most common phonetic values.