LOCAL BIRDIES: DO BIRDS HAVE ACCENTS?

During my walk out in the woods

I heard something quite weird.

Blackbirds conversed in Schweitzerdeutsch;

I couldn’t believe my ears!

“What’s Schweitzerdeutsch?” I hear you ask,

Your eyebrows cocked sky-high,

While your expression convinces me

You’re mega mystified.

Schweitzerdeutsch is German Swiss,

It’s Switzerland main speak,

A dialect that’s so guttural

It doesn’t exactly tweet!

Nevertheless, these birds I heard

Had Swiss German’s odd lilt,

A sort of up and downy twang,

If you follow my gist.

I listened for a while, amused

By their accented tunes,

And wondered whether Swiss French birds

Sound weird to German dudes!

And then of course, my thoughts spun out

To other countries too,

Do birds from London sound the same

As birds from Lancashire do?!

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