California English (or Californian English) collectively refers to the American English of California, particularly an emerging youthful variety associated with white speakers of urban and coastal California. Other documented California varieties include a "country" variety associated with rural and inland white Californians as well as unique California varieties of Chicano English associated with Mexican Americans. California is home to a highly diverse population, which is reflected in the historical and continuing formation of California English, whose uniquely developing sound shift was only first noted by linguists in the 1980s, best researched in Southern California and the San Francisco Bay area of Northern California. Since that time, California speech has been mostly associated in