Do ya'll talk funny?

[creekbend]

One only has to look at the different Bouroughs of New York City. People in the Bronx talk different from those in Long Island.

 

[J F]

Yep. It's funny, but my ears/brain prefer a "southern drawl" over a heavy NY (or Boston) accent.

 

[DFB]

Man, I hope I'm not picking up the Scandahoovian accent here in Minnesota (every seen the move "Fargo"? )

No but I did see "New In Town" :laughing:

 

[Gunny]

I did a tour up north several years ago and it used to crack up everyone when I said something with "mom n em", as in how's your mom n em? That's a pretty common question down here when you meet someone you haven't seen for awhile, but up north, they'd never heard anything like it.

 

[bigtiller]

When my uncle was discharged from the army in '53 he met a girl in the hills of Kentucky, married her and moved to D.C. It took her a few years to loose her deep hillbilly accent. It seamed to this 6 year old kid, the hardest word for her to give up was "gnaw" ---meaning "no".

 

[compact]

Maine has 4 distinct accent that I can easily identify - Portland, central, down-east coastal, and upper aroostock. Vermont is distinctly different. I speak pretty much accent free but my kids laugh at family reunions or when I'm on the phone with family as a strong central / coastal Maine dielect surfaces - I'm told.

 

[J F]

I think that probably happens a lot compact, we all change a bit depending on the circumstances.

 

[brin]

I did a tour up north several years ago and it used to crack up everyone when I said something with "mom n em", as in how's your mom n em? That's a pretty common question down here when you meet someone you haven't seen for awhile, but up north, they'd never heard anything like it.

Ya'l mean like...How's ya mom & nem ? Ya'll come see us...ya here....LOL

 

[J F]

:laughing: "You guys" instead of "y'all" always gives me away.

 

[Bird]

Yep, it's definitely different accents in different parts of the county. I have a sister who moved to California for several years, came back with such an accent folks could hardly believe it. And I used to know two New York State Troopers; one had no noticeable accent (to a Texan) while the other had a really strong accent (a Brooklyn, accent I was told). He couldn't say "Bird"; called me Boid.:laughing: And then besides the accent, folks in different areas use different words. A friend in Louisiana said he liked to go out in his bateau and fish for sac-a-lait. It wasn't too long until I learned that was going crappie fishing in a jon boat.:laughing: And then for the school year of 1971-72 at Northwestern University, we were friends with two couples from New Jersey. One of the guys had a noticeable accent while the other did not. But our 3 and 6 year old daughters picked up some Yankee terms, such as "youse guys" (all of them female) and "outen the lights" as the parents hollered at the kids to turn out the lights to go to bed.:laughing: Most, but not all, of the time, we can figure out what each other are talking about.:laughing:

 

[J F]

A friend in Louisiana said he liked to go out in his bateau and fish for sac-a-lait. It wasn't too long until I learned that was going crappie fishing in a jon boat.:laughing:

 

[DFB]

A very good friend of mine here in Vermont has a M.S. in Organic Chemistry from Louisiana Tech and currently teaches curriculum studies at the local college. Plus she also chairs the education department. She has been living here a long time but originally was born and raised in rural Louisiana. To hear her speak or teach you would be clueless to any regional accent but after a bottle of wine...look out southern drawl. The first time that happened I started laughing so hard

 

[GregbkH]

So what do folks from Chicago sound like anyways....gangsters?

Yeaaahh see! That's what we do, you dirty rat, what about it funny guy?! :laughing:

 

[mjarrels]

I spent many years in the Philippines... have no problem understanding the language when using a call center in Philippines or India.

mark

 

[mjarrels]

I spent many years in the Philippines... have no problem understanding the language when using a call center in Philippines or India.

mark

 

[QRTRHRS]

I think it was the History Channel show about the states that had an episode on accents. If I remember correctly, they explained how it was after the war that the south got it's "drawl".

I grew up in PA which has about five regional dialects. Along with spending time in other areas, I lived in New Jersey for 20 years during which, I actually worked in an area of PA where the lingo was a little different from where I had grown up. Of course, I got the "funny, you don't sound like you are from Joisey". Then I moved to yet another area in PA that spoke slightly different and lived there for ten years.

Now, I live in KY and the locals know I am not from around here but they don't have a clue from where. I happened to have spoken to an estranged sister awhile back who said "you sound different". Guess I don't know where I come from anymore either, eh?, LOL.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

We all have an ear for accents, but pinpointing an area is difficult for me. I know that Percy Kilbride was from up North someplace, Maine maybe, and Paula Deen is a Southern belle. There are several archives of recorded accents out there; this just one.

United States of America | IDEA International Dialects of English Archive

 

[dusty3030]

Do you ever call an object or a person a sumbich where y'all are from?

Does catch afar mean something is burning to you?

Is oil one or two syllables?

 

[2LaneCruzer]

Do you ever call an object or a person a sumbich where y'all are from?

Does catch afar mean something is burning to you?

Is oil one or two syllables?

Ya mean "oil", like the old TV show with Archie Bunker, "oil in the family?"

 

[deepNdirt]

This thread has got me thinking, How the teachers in our schools ( K-,1st, 2nd grades ) if actually teach the correct pronunciations of syllables and words? I mean if across our Nation we all speak differently, and pronounce words differently, we must have been taught to say them in this way, Right!,

Yes, some of us butcher and slang the words sometime from by either hearing them from others or being lazy to pronounce them the correct way, I for one have a habit of short-cutting words like -> yonder -for-> (over there ) or fetch - for-> ( bring me), etc,etc,
these are words I must have picked up on, never actually taught in school used in these terms,

Even as poor of a memory as I have, I can still remember Some of my grammar school years, when spelling words I spelled them as I heard them pronounced, ( Tha for the ) (Then for than) But the real hard one was telefone for telephone, so is it the F sound or the P sound
as confused as I was at 6 years old I finally figured out those were the trick werds, I mean! ( Words ) Little did I know that years later people wood, I mean ( Would ) be spelling Acronym words just the way I spelled them way back then,:laughing:

We can only learn the correct sound if the ones who teach us are sounding them correctly, Although I prafur , I mean ( Prefer ) to hear the many different ways Folks ( People ) say the words in their own way, after all, It would be a boring world if everyone talked like the digital language of the microsoft professor,