Re: Probability of Article Replacement?

Tristan scripsit:

> Well, it sounds like there's a front rounded vowel whenever an American
> says a word like 'good'.
I very much doubt it.

> I've heard tell that news-report-style Australian accents are easier for
> Americans to understand than British accents and easier for Brits to
> stomach than American accents. This may or may not be true.
I wouldn't bet on it.

> Oh, and if you really want to hear a real Australian accent, I suggest
> ringing something beginning with +61. Australians overseas for more than
> a week come back sounding like foreigners.
This is true for anyone who moves from one dialect area to another.  My
wife has been living in New York for more than thirty years, but still sounds
like North Carolina; to her relatives, though, she talks like a Yankee.

And to forestall any discussion of that word:  "A Yankee has been
variously defined as an American, a northern American, a New Englander,
a Vermonter, and a Vermonter who eats apple pie for breakfast. (I've
heard that those Vermonters in the apple pie category consider a Yankee
to be someone who eats their pie with a knife.)" said Judson Hale, editor
of _Yankee_ magazine.  Yankees may also be defined as "the losers in a
tug-of-war contest".

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