Wow was I surprise by the results! Before starting the “Where is the speaker from” assignment, Utilizing my personal knowledge from living in multiple states in the U.S. accompanied by my career choices that have immersed me into diverse multi-cultural groups. I thought I got this, Wrong! (only two correct). Therefore, I must ask, am I not listening, is my hearing that bad, has my personal experience made me immune to hearing dialectic differences? The answer, I decided, is my hearing is not trained enough to decipher actual changes in pronunciation of words. One exception being the New England--Bostonian dialect with the dropped |r|. Additionally, the thoughts in Steel Town Talk: Is the U.S. becoming increasingly homogeneous? “Among the reasons
