Do ya'll talk funny?
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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 
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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.
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.
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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
United States of America | IDEA International Dialects of English Archive
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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?
Does catch afar mean something is burning to you?
Is oil one or two syllables?
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Ya mean "oil", like the old TV show with Archie Bunker, "oil in the family?"
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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,
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,