I think you’ll have no problem comprehending this.
Relatively speaking, Minneapolis is Birmingham, while I live somewhere in the Irish Sea off the coast of Dublin. We do have far fewer dialects over that distance.
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Up in northern Scandinavia, huge distances are the ‘default’ so I get Minnesota.
And England has retained a surprising number of dialects despite the attempts to eradicate everything that is not “received pronounciation” aka Public School / upper class English.
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-Is Minnesota close to Wounded Knee? I wonder, because I read today is the 135th anniversary of that massacre.
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Wounded Knee is in the southwestern corner of South Dakota, which is on of the states west of Minnesota, so on the above map it would be in the Atlantic well southwest of Misen Head, Ireland. Whether you want to call that “close” is a judgment call which depends on your sense of scale.
my favorite subreddit is r/geology, where the threads often start with someone asking an interesting question (e.g., “Why can’t we build a tunnel between England and Ireland?”). The first couple of answers are usually detailed and informative, but then everything descends into a series of increasingly insane jokes and puns.
Many accents is right. My parents moved 25 miles south from Stratford upon Avon to Cheltenham a few years ago and the accents of the locals switched completely from West Midlands (Brummie-like) to (northern) West Country.
Where I used to live, near the South coast, you could instantly tell is someone was from Southampton or from a few miles outside the city.
You’d think with the rise of the monoculture the accents would have begun to die out, but they still appear to be thriving in the UK.