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Originally Posted by Sashimister
Despite the great physical distance between Hokkaido and Tokyo, there isn't too much of a dialect in Hokkaido.
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Indeed. My hostmother is ("was"? she's not my hostmother now, but she's still alive...the ambiguities of English!) from Hokkaido. About the only quirky thing about her speech was ゴミを投げる instead of 捨てる. I think this is a well-known quirk of Hokkaido speech.