Re: OT: Californian and Teen Speak
| From: | Wesley Parish <wes.parish@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, April 17, 2005, 9:11 |
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There's
Broad Sydneysider
NSWer
Victorian-South Australian
that I know of in Australia; in New Zealand there's
General NZer
Southlander - rolls Rs a la Scottish
West Coaster - interposes non-rolled Rs where they don't exist in Standard
NZer.
On Sun, 17 Apr 2005 14:01, B. Garcia wrote:
> Some of these are more exact than others, even though I can tell
> differences, I just can't really name them
>
> RP English
> Scottish
> Irish
> Welsh
> Canadian
> Californian
> New York
> Brooklyn
> Jersey
> New Yrok Jewish
> Bostonian
> Philadelphian
> Michiganian
> Wisconsin
> Minnesotan
> Central Midwest
> Texan
> Southern (i won't say I'm good enough to place people exactly all the time,
> event hough you get a group of southerners together and I can hear
> differences)
> Hawaiian
> Mexican-American
> Cajun
> Australian
> New Zealand
> South African
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