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Regional dialects in USA

There are three main dialectal regions of English in the United States of America.
Northern, Southern and Midland areas
And specific areas or regions for example The North Central region in Minnesota and
Alaska where there is a subtle difference in pronunciation of “cot” = caught, another subtle
differences from the North Central, particularly /th/ or (ð) becomes /d/
The North region where people from St Louis, Albany and Providence where there is a
shift /ă/ in “bat” strong raised to (eə) and most short vowels are shifted.

Regional dialects in the UK


In the United Kingdom there several dialects that evolve with the language, an example
of this is Cockney dialect, which is associated with the language of market stall owners in
the East End of London, its characteristics are:
Vowel sounds shift words like “day” sound like “die” and “buy” is more like “boy”
Glottal stop the better “t” is pronounced with the back of the throat and with less intensity,
words like “better” sound more like ´beúh´
The “th” in words is pronounced as “f”, words like “think” and “thing” become “fink” and
“fing”
There are many other dialects like Brummie, Yorkshire, Scottish, Welsh among several
others.

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