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Pastimes : SI Grammar and Spelling Lab -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Chuzzlewit who wrote (1359)	6/4/1998 7:02:00 PM
From: Wizzer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4711

I'm not sure what you disagree about, Chuzzlewit. I would pronounce the word "ferrous" as "fairous". Would you pronounce it "furrous"? I am not quite sure of the distinction you are making, so please forgive the mild confusion. I am one of those people that pronounce Mary, merry, and marry in exactly the same way. However, I do distinguish between pen and pin, while some parts of the U.S. pronounce both as "pin". Of course, I am sure that many people have had countless giggles and chuckles over the regional pronunciations that they have come across. In every province in Canada, there are distinct accents. In the U.S., distance does not seem to be a measure of whether you will find a different accent or not. It seems to me that almost every State I have been in, no matter how close the state is to another state, tends to have a different accent. How this has happened intrigues me, and perhaps would be a good topic for me to investigate. I don't know if there is a concrete answer. I had always thought it is time, distance and separation that causes variations/dialects in a language. What I wonder, and it is often a source of amusement, is who has the accent? Visiting my cousins in Milwaukee, they insisted I had the accent, not them. But then again, they often wanted to go for a *hat dag*, which was supposed to signify a "hot dog". Would it be fair enough to say that we all have accents?