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"Appalachian accent?" Do parts of PA really have a Southern accent? I've never really thought of PA as the South (except extreme SW PA), but it is at the same latitude as Ohio and Missouri, so maybe it does have Southern influence.
Appalachian accent does not always mean southern.
The area has a Northern Appalachian accent. No one would confuse it with Kentucky or Tennessee, but the Appalachian influences are there.
Also nearby Wheeling and Weirton, WV, are not southern cities. Might as well throw Morgantown, Parkersburg, and Clarksburg in there too.
Cultural areas do not abruptly stop at state lines.
The area has a Northern Appalachian accent. No one would confuse it with Kentucky or Tennessee, but the Appalachian influences are there.
Also nearby Wheeling and Weirton, WV, are not southern cities. Might as well throw Morgantown, Parkersburg, and Clarksburg in there too.
Cultural areas do not abruptly stop at state lines.
I'm agreeing with on here. I'm not trying to imply anything but sometimes PA folks can sound slightly like some folks south of the Mason Dixon line. I forgot the poster who brought it out but both areas had a lot of Scotch-Irish people and that could be where the similarities come from; the Northern Appalachian use Yinz and the Southern Appalachia is home of Yunz (I cringe everytime I hear that word). I remember going to school with some folks from the Philly metro (blacks and whites) and they always sounded like they were saying y'all like the natives down here but they told me they were saying you all. To be honest, outside of the way some Philly folk say coffee (a "w" after the c), I really don't hear much of an accent from them (some do sound like NNJ natives though). I worked with a guy from Harrisburg, PA and I assumed he was from this area but he was only here for two years and his dialect just didn't jump out and that's where the confusion comes into play at.
Fairly good map. I think the NY/New England line in CT is spot on. Fairfield and New Haven countys to NY the rest New England.
I think you're french line is off though. Although that part of Maine has more francophones than most of the US, it is still only a small bit of the population. Much MUCH more of NB should be francophone, all the way down the coast to Moncton, which should be on the line.
Verseau- awesome post. Although New England's different regions still don't take away from a common culture throughout the area.
i live in western mass and the dropped "r" is commonly spoken in the Springfield area.but the area is more closely tied to the hartford area than the rest of mass.
Some of those counties in extreme northern Maine are French speaking areas like Quebec. He was correct to do that
He only dropped a portion of one county (Aroostook County) which would be correct. While there are French influences all along the Western side of Maine, the heaviest is in the northern portion of Aroostook County from about the Caribou area north. The Counties in Northern Maine are really big. Aroostook County alone is bigger than some of the states in New England at 6,671 square miles.
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