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Different Dialects
The night before last I was trying to explain the concept of dialects to my oldest daughter (6). Now, I’m not a linguist, so you’ll have to excuse my explanation if it’s not exactly correct. I used the differences between American, Canadian, British, and Australian English. We speak the same language, but have very different pronunciation systems (even between regions in many cases), and use different words for different items even. We don’t often think of regional variances in English as dialects, but I think they are.
For example, here’s a UK website called Bestcarhire.co.uk. Now, I don’t know about where you live, but we would NEVER refer to a car rental business with the words Car Hire, it actually took a couple of minutes for it to click. Nice looking website though!
Yes and sweaters are jumpers to Aussies and the trunk is the boot to Brits. Fun stuff!
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