Wednesday, June 13, 2007 9:37 PM | rahel luethy | 2 comment(s)

accents

i seem to have a dictionary-english accent (surprise ;-)):

What American accent do you have? (Best version so far)

Northeastern

Most people don't know it but this is actually what dictionaries are based on. If you don't believe me, pick up any American dictionary and look up "source" and "sauce" and you'll see they are written with the same vowel pronunciation.

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with respect to my swiss-german dialect, chuchichaeschtli-orakel has pinpointed a "Pratteln, Ziefen, Liestal, Hölstein, Eptingen, Villigen, Lenzburg" variant. these locations are all pretty much located in between zofingen (where i grew up) and basel (where i've been living the last ten years).

10:09 PM | Blogger simone said...

i have a northern accent. they say it is the one they use on news networks. aha. und mer händ offesichtlich de genau gliich schwiizerdütsch akzent :-) denn hett züri bi mer no ned vell usgmacht...

9:30 AM | Blogger nj said...

Surprisingly mine comes out the same. Given some of those questions though, I'm a little worried to think about how some American accents might sound.