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Dear Max: By God, I think you've got it. The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain!
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The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain!Great! The "rain as diphthong" YART!  
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The slanguage entries for Detroit didn't note any special pronunciations. The slang terms listed all seem to be legit, although they misspelled "yooper."
Funny, I never even thought about people outside the area not knowing what the "Big Three" were when it pertains to automobile manufacturing in the US. My favorite: Windsor ballet.
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Dear Sparteye:
"My favorite: Windsor ballet"
Explication please?
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"Windsor ballet" refers to the strip clubs located in Windsor, the Canadian city across the river from Detroit. The Windsor ballet gets a lot of Detroiter business.
Support the arts. Or something...
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talkin'bout the letter "R"
Yeah, as an old chuhcaaguhwun I say it's ARR as are are, or and our. They're all pronounced the same. The white stuff that comes out of cows is melk. They didn't mention that one.
I did like that alternating image up in the upper right hand corner that said da BULLS (with a picture of a bear) and da BEARS (with a picture of a bull).
I think 708ers for suburbanites is a little out of date. The number of area codes (whence 708er) has grown quite a bit lately and 708 doesn't begin to describe the suburbs.
Other than that I really couldn't say much about common usage these days; it's been too long since I've spent more than just a couple of days there. I'd go with musick on the Chicagoland comment. Folks from Chicago per se didn't much consider the suburbs as Chicago, at least when I lived there. One time at camp I had shown up at the dining hall for serving duty and was asked where I was from. I interpreted it as asking which dorm I was representing and replied, "Cube 4." They were expecting something like Downers Grove or Hinsdale where I was assuming everybody was from Chicago.
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"place of skunks"
Or, as I learned it "skunk cabbage".
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However you pronounce it the Chicago folks make *great* pizza.
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wow offers examples: Boston: I pahk my cah by the Haavahd Apahtmens.
NH & Maine : Eyuh (ay-yuh) different meanings depending on intonation and circumstance. Right, but the question is, what do you think of the examples offered in the link? 
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Dear AnnaStrophic: I enjoyed the link, but I got more chuckles than clues to differences in regional speech. After years of conscious effort to pronounce "r" I do pretty well, but when I tried to learn some Irish Gaelic, I could not manage to reproduce the really trilled or rolled whatever the word was for it "r". Man spricht wie der Schnabel gewachsen ist, and sometimes it can be very difficult to change. I remember in the Philippines a doctor who worked in the same lab with me telling me how hard it was for him to say "ship." He simply could not do it even after a lot of inexpert coaching, it still sounded like "sheep". But even though I make a conscious effort to pronounce "r" people ask me if I am from Boston after just a few words, but most of them cannot say what it is that they notice. I have no talent whatsoever for identifying regional accents.
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