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An interesting piece on KUOW yesterday morning ( transcript and audio (3 min)) about research at U-W and Portland State on regional accents.

To NW speakers, the vowels are the same in "odd" and "ought".
Natives often drop the ending -ed, saying "can fruit" instead of "canned fruit"
Quotes from Jennifer Ingle, who did a whole study on accents in Ballard that was written up in the Seattle PI a few months ago, which noted that Northwesterners
say "bucket" instead of "pail"
emphasize the 's' in wordsuse only 14 out of 15 American English vowel sounds.
Guess I'll have to start watching my kids carefully to keep them from losing their God-given right to all 15 vowels.