Dialects & Accents (Was Re: Subject-Verb agreement with compound subjects)

[potioncat]

Goddlefrood: 
> Having been to the States several times, I can also discern 
> a large difference in accents from city to city and state to 
> state. Those on a micro level will, I have no doubt, tell us 
> that from Mukwanago to Troy or from Albany to Buffalo there 
> is a difference in accent.


Potioncat:
I can vouch for Southern accents. That is, there isn't just one 
Southern accent, there are several. My Mom and I made a trip from 
Upstate South Carolina to Charlestown, SC when I was a teenager. We 
asked a question about Charlestown and the person actually corrected 
our pronuciation! (There's no such thing as an 'r' in Lowland accents.)

I have to say, I like the genteel Southern (sometimes Lowland) accent 
very much, although that's not the one I grew up with. Rickman come 
close, but not quite, in 'Something the Lord Made.'