https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/12/20/sunday-review/dialect-quiz-map.html

  • SoyViking [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    New York, Jersey City, Yonkers.

    Non-native English speaker who has never been to the US. In school they kind of tried to teach us British English but most of my pronunciation probably comes from watching American film and television.

    • sooper_dooper_roofer [none/use name]
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      1 year ago

      New York, Jersey City, Yonkers.

      this is basically standard US english that you'd get from the internet, or watching 90s + 2000s television

      • gobble_ghoul [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        It's not really standard . That area tends to maintain the marry-merry-Mary distinction, which the overwhelming majority of Americans don't do. It maintains the cot-caught distinction, which was previously the standard but is the minority in young people these days and on its way out in a lot of the country. You also have the short-a split so that words like "had" and "ran" aren't rhymes with "bad" and "man", which is generally not even marked in dictionaries.

        • sooper_dooper_roofer [none/use name]
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          1 year ago

          You also have the short-a split so that words like “had” and “ran” aren’t rhymes with “bad” and “man”,

          this is wrong

          • gobble_ghoul [he/him]
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            1 year ago

            Feel free to elaborate, but having two phonemes in words with historic short A is a common feature in the area. Doesn’t mean every speaker has it.

    • ElHexo
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      3 months ago

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