"North American Dialects" Topic

I once a had a discussion in an English pub about American accents (dialects). There are many different dialects in North America and mixes of the dialects. According to the map in the link I speak with a Inland North accent/dialect of English with a St. Louis corridor influence. Mind you that we cannot hear our own dialect/accent only others who do hear ours. While in the UK a woman said she "just loved my accent".

Enjoy exploring the accents/dialects of North America. There is the map and scroll down to hear the accents/dialects in the listed audio portion.

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Terry

Pin=pen sounds Afrikaans

Oh, Lordy, there are way more Southern dialects than that!
An accent from Eastern Middle Mississippi is entirely different from an accent in Mid-Alabama, and certainly Georgia, and those are different from Northern Alabama, which can also be distinct from Middle Tennessee, which itself can vary every hundred miles or so. And of course, there's a difference in accent among different economic classes and racial or social groups (and even within these same distinctions). And that doesn't count the various immigrant populations! And for irony, the pastor of our local Middle Tennessee church is Australian!