aj1020
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r washr "warsh"r oilr "oirl"r boilr "boirl"
(Inserting an r in words like the above is typical of the southern Midland, especially the Ohio River basin, including southwestern Pennsylvania, southern portions of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, and parts of the "Border States" to the south.)
http://www2.hawaii.edu/~bender/chklst.html
doesm't mean anything but who knows
I did get the video e mailed out to the news stations
I'm afraid we might be getting a bit hung up on his accent (or lack there of) pointing to a specific location - my dad and my husband both say warsh (as in "I'm going to warsh the dishes") and it drives me BONKERS ("there's no R in wash..." I tell them). But they're both from Nebraska. I think his accent sounds very mid-American - but the lack of a specific accent could point to anywhere from Nevada to Ohio.
Also - he could have grown up and lived the better part of his life in "mid-America" and then moved to somewhere with an indigenous, more obvious accent - Georgia, Texas, Boston, etc. He could be reported missing from anywhere if that was his last known location.
Benjaman looks like he could be my uncle - maybe we can adopt him until he finds his own family.