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In article <CqFyIp.5u0@cbnewse.cb.att.com> ronaldd@cbnewse.cb.att.com (ronald.h.davis) writes:


>i recall reading an article in a 1924 edition of "atlantic monthly"
>magazine [i was taking a class on the 1920's at the time] which said
>that regional accents are defined by how *white* people in the region
>speak.  definitely true...

>television has done a lot to reduce variations in regional dialects
>to a certain extent, i suspect, in addition to the movement of people
>over wider areas and more often.  these factors might explain why
>people in major cities in the south don't tend to have different
>accents than people in remote, rural areas.  of course, there are some
>who, motivated by "southern pride" or similar nonsense, make an concerted
>effort to maintain a noticeable accent.

I'll be honest. Even though I was fortunate to learn Midwest Speech as my own 
native dialect (which in turn the networks used as a national standard)...I 
think we miss a lot...richness, diversity in patterns and idiom.

BTW- it used to be a radio truisim that if you went south of the Mason-Dixon 
line for more than a year....you couldn;t come back north...I wonder if that's 
still true?  
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