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I was born to two British Immigrants who came to the US each at the age of 16 to find a better life in the US. The gradually lost their strong Scottish (mother) and Northeastern English (father) accents over the next roughly 45 to 50 years. In our house many of the terms shown on this poster were used interchangeably. Also by the year I turned 17, 1961, I had been in all of the 48 mainland states and had heard hundreds of accents from the Atlanta to the Pacific from the Canadian border to the north and the Mexican to the south. I too heard these words used interchangeably or differently across the states. i.e.: ask for a Coke, soda, soft drink, co-cola in a dozen states and listen for what you will hear next.
Posted on: Sat, 10 Aug 2013 22:33:44 +0000

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