Dialect quiz

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Yep!  People talk like their peers, not like their parents; just look at the children of immigrants, or, in all probability, every single person who responds here (e.g., I look like a Minnesotan and not like a Michigander).

This is not actually true of everybody...

Yeah. I lived for the first 8 or so years of my life in the South East and then after that in Edinburgh, and have neither a Scottish nor a southern accent but, weirdly, a sort of Mancunian accent, because my Mum's from there.

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