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What's the difference between a dialect and a accent?
A dialect a form of language while an accent is the pronunciation of words.
What word is used for soda in Georgia?
Coke
What suffix is shortened in the Boston accent?
ing
What is a diphthong?
a sound formed by the combination of two vowels in a single syllable
What word means awesome?
Pissah from Boston
What two accents are non-rhotic?
New York and Boston
What does rhotic mean?
relating to or denoting a dialect or variety of English (e.g. in most of the US and southwestern England) in which r is pronounced before a consonant (as in hard ) and at the ends of words (as in far ).
What is a frunchroom?
Living Room
What accent says earl instead of oil?
New Orleans
Where does the Cajun accent come from (the group of people)?
Acadians
What is the translation of Mardi Gras?
Fat Tuesday
If you live in lower-class New York City, what does the 'ir' sound change to?
oi
What are 4 of the main 8 diphthongs? You can use them in words.
Near, pure, high, boy, go, pair, now, day
What does Kagou mean?
you just don't feel right
What diphthong does the Atlanta accent change?
/aɪ/or the i sound