My question about Vermont accents
I've read that 100 years ago, people in the eastern half of Vermont used to speak a lot like they do in New Hampshire and Maine, in that they would drop the 'r' so that Montpelier, Vermont would come out as 'Mon'peliah, Vuhmon'', whereas those in the western half would, for the most part, sound much like they do in Upstate New York and Michigan, where a lot of Vermonters migrated to in the 19th century, however, the entire state would have pronounced 'father' and 'palm' as 'fahther' and 'pahm', and in rural areas, the long i and the au sound in 'about right' would have sounded something like 'aboat roight', similar to the Canadians, but thicker.
Nowadays, both these accents have largely receded after so many people moved to the state in the past century, with the remote Northeast Kingdom being a stronghold for the original, thicker accents, which you sometimes still hear across the state in a more diluted form.
However, I do hear that even nowadays, many Vermonters still have certain quirks in their speech that set them apart from the standard newscaster accent, such as the glottal stop replacing the 't' at the end of certain words, the vowel in words like 'farm' being fronted to 'fahrm' and the vowel in words like 'calf', 'aunt' and 'rather' rhyming with 'father' instead of 'laugh' or 'ant'.
How often do you still hear these aspects of Vermont speech in your daily life? I would like to know.