People in my region talk the way they should. People elsewhere talk with accents.
Check out this interactive map of regional dialects around the U.S. Click on a region and get a list of cities and their dialect representatives.
Listeners can decide for themselves whether Tommy Frank is representative of the typical Midland accent, or Larry Gatlin for Odessa and Clayton Williams for Fort Stockton.
Via Good.is.
He seems to use dialect and accent interchangably. What's the difference? Here's a reasonable explanation:
Dialect can have words that are unique to itself and variant grammatical structures; Accents are variations in the way English is spoken.
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