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I agree for the most part but why do you think the southwest sounds any different?
The New Mexico accents are definitely non-standard. Most people in New Mexico with a General American accent don't go back more than a couple generations.
The New Mexico accents are definitely non-standard. Most people in New Mexico with a General American accent don't go back more than a couple generations.
Ok, I've not noticed but I've not spoken to too many people from there.
Oh the dangers of drawing straight lines on a map. To really be accurate, California is in more than one region. Southern California is the southwest (Imperial Beach is the most southwest city in the lower 48 after all). Northern California could be part of the northwest.
I do agree with Acajak about the accents being close as California's accent is derived from the north-midland accent.
Oh the dangers of drawing straight lines on a map. To really be accurate, California is in more than one region. Southern California is the southwest (Imperial Beach is the most southwest city in the lower 48 after all). Northern California could be part of the northwest.
I do agree with Acajak about the accents being close as California's accent is derived from the north-midland accent.
Here is an example from a CBC Radio program. The guy is a university professor in Utah. Not sure if he's from there - but he's definitely not Canadian as the CBC would have said so.
You would have to be really attentive and search long and hard to find cues that this guy is not Canadian (if you suspected he was or was not).
Americans are so strange when it comes to American geography, florida's not in the south, California's not in the southwest, the north is only the northeast.
Americans are so strange when it comes to American geography, florida's not in the south, California's not in the southwest, the north is only the northeast.
Well, California includes all of the *most* southwestern part of the continental United States, so...
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