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"My Muppets try to stop me..."
Got relatives with this accent. Did someone here mention or did I read this somewhere else? We are in danger of losing these dialects because people aren't as isolated as they once were and it's being diluted. You think this is true?
There is not just a single dialect for each state but several different sounds and speeds. The other day I found this video which matches the regional dialect that I grew up hearing the closest. It is slow but not drawn out and has a musicality without the usual exaggerations one finds on television. How do people in your town speak?