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Many stereotypical attempts at a New Yorker accent tend to have 'curl' and 'coil' as homophones, but actually they are phonemically different. The vowel is unrounded in 'curl'. Try saying coil without rounding lips, and then you'll get it.

American English has generally been more conservative than British English in areas such as pronunciation, where a 'flat a' has been preserved in words like 'fast' but have morphed into a 'broad a' in British English.

"The Ulster Scots seem to have been of a more roving disposition or a more pioneering spirit than the English, and their movement from Pennsylvania to the South...seems to indicate they were generally to be found on each advancing frontier. "