Bill Bryson said,” Some authorities have suggested that once there was much greater diversity in American speech than now. They have pointed out that in Mark Twain’s book Huckleberry Finn that he needed seven separate dialects for all of the characters because they spoke so differently. Every accent and phrase comes from one source and someone says it differently and it becomes popular and people think they have to talk that way and grow up with it and it is programmed in their vocabulary. This is how certain phrases change from region to region of the US.
Some wonder if we can divide American speech into different categories. This is how we figured out that phrases change when you are in different regions of the US. If your names is Ben and you live in Wisconsin then it will be very difficult for you because there they say been like bin and that rhymes with Ben. So if your thinking of naming your son Ben and you live in Wisconsin think of another name because it will be a difficult life for them because they will think people are trying to talk to them but in reality they’re saying been and they’ll be very confused.
Bryson,” Northerners tend to prefer the “oo” sound to the “ew” sound in words like duty, Tuesday, and newspaper, saying “dooty” instead of “dewty” and so on. Northern accents they tend to drop words in common phrase like “This your house?” Instead of “Is this your house?” or “You coming?” These are all common phrase that northerners say as communication to others. “In the South on the other hand there is a general reluctance or inability to distinguish clearly between fall and foal, oil and all, poet and pour it, morning and moaning, peony and penny, fire and far, sawer and sour, courier and Korea, ahs and eyes, are and hour, and many other.”
The only company who has really tried to figure out and distinguish dialects and why people say phrases differently and that is Dictionary of American Regional English or (DARE) for short. These people have sent 1000 people to question 2700 random people and ask them phrases and see how they responded to the question to then see what region of the United States they came from Northern or Southern. This helped DARE to distinguish a map and put all of the people into categories in the whole US.
There are many ways to speak and the ways to say phrases. Especially in the US there are so many people immigrating to the US each year we learn different dialects and that makes us say phrases different ways than others and it’s normally confined to a certain region. Like in the South region how they say certain things and it looks nothing like the word they are trying to say and same for the Northern part of the US.