Is there such a thing as a Warsh accent?
Go figure, but that's not Scotch-Irish either. Warsh was used frequently in Quyon and Mayo, West Quebec for at least two generations of Irish Canadians. My father and his siblings spoke what I though was simply bad English, however I now realize that it was an accent transported from Ireland (a la The Great Famine).
Where does the wash accent come from?
The accent can be found in the swath of the country that extends west from Washington, taking in Maryland; southern Pennsylvania; West Virginia; parts of Virginia; southern Ohio, Indiana and Illinois; most of Missouri; and Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, much of Kansas a My grade 5 teacher pronounced wash as "warsh".
Where does the Pennsylvania accent come from?
Where does the Pennsylvania accent come from?
Barbara Johnstone, in an interview covered by the article Steel Speak said this: But some features of the accent of southwestern Pennsylvania are geographically distributed in the same way—in the Pittsburgh area and to the west and the south— as are words and grammatical structures we know are Scotch-Irish in origin.
What are the different types of American English accents?
What are the different types of American English accents?
The United States Of Accents: Midwestern American English. 1 Midland American English. American Midland Accent. Watch later. Watch on. As indicated by the Midwesterner above, Midland American English speakers 2 Inland Northern American English. 3 North-Central American English.
What is the origin of the Alaskan accent?
Linguists say the accent formed because of the German, Swedish and Norwegian people moving to the area in the late 1800s. The combination of these foreign accents merged with Inland North American English to create this new dialect. For another example of this accent, you can turn to former Governor of Alaska Sarah Palin.
