User talk:SirUltimos
February 2017
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Hello, I'm RA0808. I noticed that in this edit to New England English, you removed content without adequately explaining why. In the future, it would be helpful to others if you described your changes to Wikipedia with an edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry, the removed content has been restored. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. RA0808 talkcontribs 19:14, 15 February 2017 (UTC)
- Sure, many different sources don't have New England (and even Western New England) as a unified accent. Here is a map by William Labov here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_English#/media/File:North_American_English_dialect_regions.jpg
and you even have maps like these that go into major detail about the various North American accents. http://aschmann.net/AmEng/#LargeMap3Left These are just a couple of examples. Many other University maps of that sort don't show any unity whatsoever between New England. New England has numerous dialect division. Also, I have first hand knowledge that Vermont is not General American because my sister works in the voice over industry. She had to supress her "Vermont" accent to sound general american. She was 23 years old when this happened (meaning she was from the "younger" generation). This is obviously not a source, but it backs what these other sources have said about a supposedly "Western new Endhland English" or that New England is "general american." Too many other sources back that this is not the case. SirUltimos (talk) 19:21, 15 February 2017 (UTC)