Fun Distraction: Accents

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Meet Erik Singer a dialect coach and his fellow Linguists in this video from Wired about the history behind accents of the English language in North America. What an interesting profession!

https://youtu.be/H1KP4ztKK0A (21 mins)

“Dialect coach Erik Singer takes us on a tour of different accents across English-speaking North America. Erik and a host of other linguists and language experts (Nicole Holliday, Megan Figueroa, Sunn m’Cheaux, and Kalina Newmark), take a look at some of the most interesting and distinct accents around the country.”
– Wired

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