By Pronunciation, Dialects

Englishuser wrote:What's interesting is that these changes are led by younger female speakers. Older speakers and male speakers adopt these kind of changes later. Yes, that really is interesting. Why are the changes led by younger female speakers in particular? What about younger male...

Wow, what a lot of nonesense.Is American English simply lazy English with disregard for the fundamentals of the language, or is it a valid simplification of an overly complex and irregular language?Huh? What are you talking about? I was hoping nobody would ask, but since you did, I much...

Well, it depends on how you pronounce them. For example, you pronounce "go" as

The Western and Central Canadian English dialect does have several differences from conservative General American, although many dialects in the US have some or all of the same features that are found in Western/Central Canadian English. Western/Central Canadian English is actually closer to...

So what's your definition of American English (or North American English, as some prefer)? I would probably define it mostly by its phonology. It would be pretty hard to define. Or why not just say, any dialect of English spoken in North America?Is there a standard for American English?Not...

CalifJim wrote:Sounds Australian to me, mate (/maIt/). CJ Actually Australians use .

CalifJim wrote:I have heard gulf pronounced only one wayReally? Which way? The Southwesterners that I met tended to pronounce "ul" /@l/ as .

My dialect lacks final -ing in words of more than two syllables. Thus I use retain the engma, and the /I/ remains lax.

All dialects that I know of pronounce them with .

No, I don't speak a Southern dialect or Ebonics. I have a Western accent. I'm from the Tsawwassen peninsula. Not everyone merges all of those words here, but everyone pronounces them at least close. Certain areas in Northern Wisconsin and the Upper peninsula of Michigan as well as some...