... to go to the coast (geow to the ceowst), not the beach or theshore, as well as to microbrews, used clothing stores (where the clothes arenot too spendy ‘expensive’), bookstores (bik-stores), ... sound to many speakers like but. Dialects follow different shifts over time and become distinct, which iswhy American English differs from British and Australian English, forexample. Although different ... of Linguistic Change(1994, 2 001) . For more information about DARE and a dialectology approach to American dialects, see Craig Carver’s 1987 book American Regional Dialects: A Word Geography or...