What do you call a low, collapsible camp bed? And what’s the past tense of the word “catch?” If the two answers sound basically the same, you might be from California. For Alta online, Adam Rogers spoke to linguists about the development of the California accent, which is influenced by Spanish, the Gold Rush, migration from within and outside the U.S., “Valley Girl” speak, and more.
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I’m California adjacent so ya, describes my dialect.
Also, glad they mentioned this: “She found that first-generation Japanese immigrants, the Issei, had a distinctive version of English. The experience of internment during World War II led them to insist that later generations sound unimpeachably “American””.@[email protected] Whereas where we come from, a cot isn’t a collapsible camp bed, but a place to put a sleeping baby (a crib). Got to love English and all its idiosyncracies!
