North American English Dialects
The bit I find neat is the rhotic 'R'.  Most of the US says 'R'... not quite as strong as pirates did (I'll get to that) but the 'r' is there.<p>A British woman who I worked (from London) didn't have the 'r' sound "car park" sound to my ear like "ca pack".<p>In England, the rhoticity was found in the poorer and rural parts of the country during the age of discovery.  The ship builders, the people who were on ships, the poor people who got sent to the new world... and pirates.<p>A map of where non-roticity shows up in American English: <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Non-RhoticityUSA.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Non-RhoticityUSA.png</a> ... and you've got a map of where the upper class of England lived in the 1700s in the US.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhoticity_in_English" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhoticity_in_English</a><p>----<p><a href="https://www.waywordradio.org" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.waywordradio.org</a> is a podcast on the English language and dialectical differences are frequently found as topics.<p>They also make reference to Dictionary of American Regional English - <a href="https://dare.wisc.edu" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://dare.wisc.edu</a> - digital version: <a href="https://www.daredictionary.com" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.daredictionary.com</a> (yes, its a subscription service)