I've determined that learning to read (and teaching reading) would be much easier if we spoke properly - like as in with an English accent. That way the 'a' in "apple" would make the same sound as the 'a' in "pan". I never thought I had an accent...but the way we Americans talk have really made learning to read and write the English language much more difficult than it would need to be!
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You think it's hard up there - you should try teaching reading to southern children who talk with a southern accent! Boy, those poor kids don't know the difference between a pen and pin cause of how the say their short vowels! Take heart - your accents not as bad as it could be!
And then there's the Philly part of your accent!! LOL I didn't realize Philadelphia-area people had an accent until I moved south, then went back north & listened! It's pretty funny, actually. It's as easy for me to pick out a Philly accent as it is a Brooklyn accent.
Even in the south, the southern accents are very different. There's the "soft, refined" sounding accent of old Savannah, and then there's the not-so-refined "Jeff Foxworthy/Larry the Cable Guy" accent. The Chattanooga accent drops consanants, such as when the weatherman reports "we will have rain on "SAURDAY"...leaving out the "T". He also leaves the "V" out of the word "evening"...drives me nuts!!! LOL
Oh well.
i say we just all move to england... that would make life so much easier. lol.
So true about the added element of southern drawls!!
I dunno, Laur, I hear they have terrible healthcare!! :)
I'm sorry. I must be really screwed up after living in 2 parts of NY state and four parts of PA - the "a" in "apple" sounds just like the "a" in "pan" to me.
I must need speech therapy :)
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