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To: steve86
Trying to write phonetically the Boston accent is not easy (and I suppose the Ozzy too .. ) because the subtle "breathed" sounds (I don't even know if I'm saying THAT understandably) can't ...

THERE'S a good example ..

Can't = cahnt, but the T is not so much a T as a T-ified D ..

Anyway ... yeah ... as they say in new yock ... fageddaboudit.

91 posted on 08/24/2012 5:29:43 PM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
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To: knarf

Found this video of a British girl doing various English accents — it’s hysterical — predictably, the only one that sounds normal and unaffected to me is the Seattle variation. Wouldn’t you know I’m from (and in) Washington State (Warshington, for you?)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0tRphsvM8M&feature=related


95 posted on 08/24/2012 6:00:39 PM PDT by steve86 (Acerbic by nature not nurture TM)
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