{"id":3103,"date":"2012-04-04T07:29:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-04T15:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.everhear.com\/?p=3103"},"modified":"2012-04-04T07:29:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-04T15:29:00","slug":"do-seattlites-have-accents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/do-seattlites-have-accents\/","title":{"rendered":"Do Seattlites Have Accents?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tAn post on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/46935100\/ns\/local_news-seattle_wa\/#.T3t9QGJWpjB\">MSNBC<\/a> helped anser the question, &#8220;is there a Seattle accent?&#8221; For the majority of people in Seattle they would say &#8220;no&#8221; however University of Washington linguist Betsy Evans has a different answer, &#8220;maybe.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Evans <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsci.washington.edu\/nwenglish\/index.asp\">work<\/a> with colleague Alicia Beckford Wassink studied thousands of Seattle voices, and found a few distinct pronunciations that you may not even notice including &#8220;beg&#8221; for the word &#8220;bag&#8221; and using a long &#8220;A&#8221; sound for the word &#8220;egg&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>These pronunciations \u2013 using the long \u201cA\u201d sound in \u201cbag\u201d and \u201cegg\u201d \u2013 are typically found in the Upper Midwest,\u00a0\u201cWe really don\u2019t know yet why this pronunciation exists here in Seattle,\u201d Evans said.\u00a0More research is needed to figure out why those dialects are so prevalent in the Pacific Northwest.<\/p>\n<p>The research team has also noticed another trend in Seattle, the low-back vowel merger, something commonly seen in the western half of the United States.\u00a0People in Washington tend to pronounce the word \u201ccot\u201d the same way they pronounce the word \u201ccaught,\u201d and the name \u201cDon\u201d the same way they would say the name \u201cDawn,\u201d which caries significantly from our friends over on the East coast.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Evans is studying how people perceive accents in Washington, and is looking into the\u00a0dialectical\u00a0differences between the state.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An post on MSNBC helped anser the question, &#8220;is there a Seattle accent?&#8221; For the majority of people in Seattle they would say &#8220;no&#8221; however University of Washington linguist Betsy Evans has a different answer, &#8220;maybe.&#8221; Evans work with colleague Alicia Beckford Wassink studied thousands of Seattle voices, and found a few distinct pronunciations that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3104,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"Do Seattlites Have Accents?","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","schema":"","fname":"","lname":"","position":"","credentials":"","placeID":"","no_match":false,"name":"","company":"","review":"","address":"","city":"","state":"","zip":"","lat":"","lng":"","phone1":"","phone2":"","fax":"","mon1":"","mon2":"","tue1":"","tue2":"","wed1":"","wed2":"","thu1":"","thu2":"","fri1":"","fri2":"","sat1":"","sat2":"","sun1":"","sun2":"","hours-note":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[813,13,559,814,199],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3103"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}