Can anyone recommend any good books or other resources on regional dialects, their usage and evolution? I am particularly interested in the East Midlands/Leicestershire area. Forgive my ignorance, but can anyone name a few English dialects? We

Gangsta rap is encouraging the growth of (limited) non-rhoticism and perhaps is shoring up the cot/caught distinction. So it's actually compatible with RP. In general, I don't think he does. He focuses on the issue of pronunciation. But

I have no idea how much accent variation is typical between siblings. Now, if you believe Hollywood (hah!), people who are supposed to be related by blood routinely have no similarity in accent. A coworker once told me of his family's

http://www.ling.mq.edu.au/units/ling210-901/transcription/broad transcri ( http://tinyurl.com/62n4y .) Thanks. I didn't expect the URL to split like that. I'm glad to know someone's put together a page with ... is saying

Dear friend, both a correct, but the first option is generally more common among British English speakers. The choice of the pronoun largely depends on your intention: if you wish to speak of a class as a number of individuals, you should resort

(Google data restored) 213 10 "rubbed me up the wrong way" 5990 63 ... Maybe I'm stuck on a previous version of the dialect. It's always been 'rubbed up' for me, and I haven't been around all that long. But it seems

This supposed "Standard American English accent" sounds like a variation on the now rarely-used term "General American": From the dictionary at www.infoplease.com , which appears to be the *Random House Webster's Unabridged

'Used to' and 'use to' are not pronounced identically in ... between the 'd' of 'used' and the 't' of 'to'. I'll take your word on that. There may well be differences between the US and the UK

... Straw man, Tony! I plead innocent. I wasn't replying to Andrew. I don't even read Andrew's posts and have no idea what he said or what point he was trying to make. You did this time. See below. I've read Andrew's posts in

I don't see a very close connection between Southern speech and African-American speech. Then you're deef, Coop. Or, more likely, your Indianapolis Midland roots place you too close to the Southern dialect yourself to be able to perceive