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artappraiser — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 03:53:51 +0000

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Fascinating link. Thanks.

acanuck — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 22:40:46 +0000

In reply to How Americans near the Great Lakes are radically changing the sound of English.

Fascinating link. Thanks. From the headline, I thought maybe Canadian pronunciation might be spilling over the border. But the border from Syracuse to Milwaukee is all water, and the vowel shift isn't at all in the same direction.

It might be a bit early to label a half-century drift in pronunciation among 34 million speakers as the biggest change to English since the 1400s, though. I haven't seen evidence of it influencing the standard American of news anchors, for example. (Most of them closeted Canadians, by the way.) So the range of the change may be limited.

I'd love to discuss this further, but it's time for me to be out and about.

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Glad to see you find it of

Fascinating link. Thanks.

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