Western New England English
The English of Western New England in fact shows many sharp differences throughout rather than one uniform accent. In 2001, Charles Boberg, discussing that Western New England English was a likely direct influence on the Inland Northern English of the Great Lakes region, still identified as many as four or five English sub-regional accents within Western New England itself, based on data from the late 1990s:
North American English regional phonology
The r-colored vowel of "cart" is back and often rounded , and not fronted as it famously is in Boston. New York City and its surrounding areas are also known for a complicated short-"a" split into lax versus tense , so that words, for example, like "cast", "calf", and "cab" have a different, higher, tenser vowel sound than "cat", "catch", and "cap". The New York accent is well attested in American movies and television shows, often exaggerated, and especially ones about American mobsters from the area. Though it is sometimes known as a "Bronx" or "Brooklyn accent", no research has confirmed differences of accent between the city's boroughs.