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ashling

(25,771 posts) Wed May 4, 2016, 12:18 PM May 2016

9 Maps That Show How Americans Speak In Different Regions

http://www.businessinsider.com/american-regional-dialects-expressions-2013-12

9 Maps That Show How Americans Speak In Different Regions

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9 Maps That Show How Americans Speak In Different Regions (Original Post) ashling May 2016 OP

is it just me, or does that video not play? greymouse May 2016 #1

worked for me NJCher May 2016 #2

How to talk Minnesotan Mnpaul May 2016 #3

brilliant! Blue_Tires May 2016 #4

Alaskan, which isn't shown here, Blue_In_AK May 2016 #5

greymouse

(872 posts)

1. is it just me, or does that video not play?

Reply to ashling (Original post)

Wed May 4, 2016, 06:20 PM

May 2016

NJCher

(35,653 posts)

2. worked for me

Reply to greymouse (Reply #1)

Wed May 4, 2016, 08:27 PM

May 2016

Try another browser?

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Mnpaul

(3,655 posts)

3. How to talk Minnesotan

Reply to ashling (Original post)

Wed May 4, 2016, 10:28 PM

May 2016

Now being replayed on PBS

Full version here:
http://video.tpt.org/video/2365042610/

Blue_Tires

(55,445 posts)

4. brilliant!

Reply to Mnpaul (Reply #3)

Fri May 6, 2016, 06:19 PM

May 2016

Blue_In_AK

(46,436 posts)

5. Alaskan, which isn't shown here,

Reply to ashling (Original post)

Fri May 6, 2016, 06:36 PM

May 2016

is kind of an interesting mix of Yup'ik/Inupiat-inflected English, upper prairie because of the homesteaders who came here in the '30s and '40s (I think that's why Sarah always says "rill" instead of "real&quot , and Texas drawl because of the oil men.

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