[Clemenza]

It is because of TV - The dialects aren't isolated any more... we all hear one common speech that is pretty vanilla - accentless.

For this New Yorker, the most "vanilla" accent belongs to the people who prounounce "Orange" as OOr-enge, rather than Are-ange, as we in New York (and those in the UK) do. Remember, its not FlOOrida, its FlA-rida.

[Dakmar]

As a chronic and incurable midwesterner, I question the need for your fancy East Coast double vowelling. It's pronounced "ornj".

[eddie willers]

rather than Are-ange

As in "Are-ange you gonna fix supper?

[knarf]

Aw ringe and Flawrida, from my neck of Boston.

[mc5cents]

or this New Yorker, the most "vanilla" accent belongs to the people who prounounce "Orange" as OOr-enge, rather than Are-ange, as we in New York (and those in the UK) do. Remember, its not FlOOrida, its FlA-rida.

Well, I'm from Flarada and it's pronounced arnge. So there.