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Regional variation in pronunciation/ dialect map

This website demonstrates regional variation in pronunciation with examples of how people in different parts of the US pronounce the word “bought.”

http://www.utexas.edu/courses/linguistics/resources/socioling/boughtmap/index.html

Creole, Gullah*

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPGx1icFdLQ (From 5:00 or so)

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPGx1icFdLQ[/youtube]

*Audio and video are not synched accurately.