Country dialects - do they all have them?

JBR said:
Two things. I'm from BC, Canada, and I have no idea what a Civil Service Conservation is. ??

Second, I have worked with people, and have friends who are, from Quebec. And I think that the term "Frog", as a slang label, is crude... and often meant to be derogatory. I'd never use it, and neither would any of my friends out here. Having said that, unfortunately it was common in Canada's English-speaking provinces in past decades, but it seems rarer now.
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Maybe I didn't remember his job title right, He worked for the Forest Parks up in Cultus Lake so whatever his job was there. It's been many decades since I was there. This was back in the 70's so yes he laughed about being called that is why I remember it so well. He was a
good natured guy, and let it roll off his back. I know he had some Salmon caught from up there and I have yet to ever taste Salmon like that since.
 
As a native Hoosier, I never thought I had much of an accent, outside of the Hoosier habit of putting an "r" in randomly, such as "Warsh your hands before you sit down at the table, young man!" I have fought that pretty successfully. I don't say "warsh".

But when I moved to Virginia for a year, everybody said I "talked funny", mostly because I pronounced city names as they were spelled. Big mistake. I would say Nor-folk, Suf-folk, New-port News. People would laugh. "You aren't from around here, are you?" I learned to pronounce the cities "Nawfuk, Suffuk, and Nuppet News"....or at least somewhere in the neighborhood.
 
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