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To: JerseyanExile; All

You want to have some fun? Check out this website.

http://www.penceland.com/ne_dialect.html


101 posted on 08/24/2012 7:10:10 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
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NCS speakers then slide the wha sound into the slot formerly occupied by short o. They now pronounce caught like people from Boston do, but they pronounce cot the way other people say cat. One link down the chain, but tilts toward bought, and further down the short e in words like bet starts to sound like but. The final link in this chain may be the short i of bit elbowing its way in the direction of bet, though its course isn’t entirely clear just yet.

I've never heard anyone talk like that. What city talks like this?

105 posted on 08/24/2012 7:58:39 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
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