Researchers at the University of British Columbia Okanagan hope to determine if people who live in the Okanagan have a unique accent.
They’ve launched a website where British Columbians can record themselves reading a specific passage and submit it as part of the research into what characteristics separate an Okanagan accent from others across the province.
Molly Babel, an associate professor of linguistics and co-lead on the project, says not much research has been done on dialects outside urban areas in the province.
Testing accents
“Most of what
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