Accents and Dialects in American English
Accents and Dialects in American English
What is the difference I accents and dialects in American English?
With a population of 300 million or so, and a language that has adopted from almost every other language in the world, American English is strewn, nay, littered, with dozens of accents and dialects. An emphasis generally refers to how words are pronounced. Dialect is more of a mini-language, incorporating the accent, but adding expressions and phrases unique to itself. The Pacific Northwest residents have western accents tinged with those of their Canadian neighbors in Alberta and British Columbia, just over the border.
Some Americans are considered caddish or uninformed by their countrymen because of their particular brand of American English. While standard, good usage is important, so is preserving the individual flavors of American English, conveyed in its many patoises and emphases. English is actually an unusual language. Already a blend of early Frisian and Saxon, it absorbed Danish and Norman French, and later added many Latin and Greek technical terms.
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