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27th May 15, 08:34 PM
#16
 Originally Posted by neloon
Facebook tag thing aimed at comparing US accents
Yes it's called "accent tag" and goes far beyond US accents, with a large number of participants in Canada, England, Scotland, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand, though true that the word list and questions were obviously devised by some American.
I spent a couple hours one lazy morning listening to Accent Tag. It's amazing.
Here's some Scottish ones
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ux8t0mFNJY
Sometimes there's obvious "contamination" such as the one where three college students living in the same dorm, from three different countries, and they've obviously been picking up speech habits from each other. Or people who, knowing that they're posting a video which will be seen across the globe, unconsciously modify their speech to be more generic. One Scottish girl stops herself saying "I don't talk like that!" and starts over with a much stronger Scottish accent.
Here's my home state. It's interesting that two sisters would have different pronunciations of so many words, yet I too use both, in nearly every case. I had reckoned that it was contamination from living in California for so long, but there it is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQx_Ih-9dtI
This sounds "like home" to me. Note how she addresses the negative stereotypes associated with "Southern" accents (though West Virginia is, in fact, quite far north, and was a Union state in the Civil War). She also addresses how outsiders invariably mispronounce "Appalachian".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2I0d1DHZas
Last edited by OC Richard; 27th May 15 at 09:01 PM.
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