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Accents
Ames and I had a random convo on FB last night, and accents were brought up. So.....
1) Do you consider yourself to have an accent?
2) Do you think every region has an accent of some sort?
3) What words/phrases/etc are exclusive to your area?
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1) Not really but I'm sure everyone technically has one in the eyes of others. I just feel like our way of speaking doesn't have much variations. I don't want to say monotone, but it doesn't have many rises and falls to it, if that makes any sense.
2) Technically yes. But I think some areas are a lot easier to recognize then others.
3) All I can think of is "bubbler" (water fountain you drink out of), but I'm sure there are more.
Also, many people say Floyd has an accent ( Engish is his 2nd language), but I don't hear it at.all. Most say it does sound like a Spanish speaking accent, but he gets some randoms like Jamaican lol. Who knows!
Re: Accents
Accent? ME?! Nah.....
ETA: ok ok, enough with being a wise@ss...
1) Do you consider yourself to have an accent? Yes I do. With the exception fo 5 years, I was born and raised 20 minutes south of Boston. And I'm OK with this. Proud of it, actually.
2) Do you think every region has an accent of some sort? I do, and I noticed this when I moved down to Maryland -- even though it may not have it's own labeled brand of accent, it definitely had one. There were words used and said that were definitely unique to the area.
3) What words/phrases/etc are exclusive to your area? Wicked means very, or a lot. Clicker is a remote control. Elastics are rubber bands, hair or otherwise. Bubbler is a water fountain. And there are so many others. Of course, all of these words are to be sans the "er" but you get the idea.
updated 10.03.12
1) Do you consider yourself to have an accent?
Nope. My mom was very concerned about us having accents as children so she corrected them out of us if we ever pronounced anything with a dialectic twang.
2) Do you think every region has an accent of some sort?
Yes. Except for the West/ Southwest, they're too new to have developed their own regional accent.
3) What words/phrases/etc are exclusive to your area?
Kirkin' Out is a DC slang term to mean going crazy, but I've never heard anyone who wasn't a client in the juvenile justice system use it. I like it for obvious reasons.
Stand up for something you believe in.
I personally never thought I had an accent until I was on my honeymoon and these people came up to us and were like "oh what part of NY are you from?" I asked how they knew I was from NY and they said they heard my accent.
I do think every region does, although we have friends from California and I have family from the West Coast and I don't think they sound different from me. However just NY alone has many different accents, if your from Long Island or Brooklyn than you usually have a distinct accent.
I don't think there is much in the line of phrases, we call pizza a pie. So when I call to order I never say pizza I say can I get a large pie. We never say hoagie its always a wedge.
This is weird.
In St. Louis it is a sub or a sandwich. In DC it is a hoagie. In other parts of the East Coast (Rhode Island and MA) I've heard it called a grinder. Wedge is a new one...
What do you call the cart you pick up at the grocery store?
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1) Do you consider yourself to have an accent? I don't think I do, but Jon tells me all the time he can tell I am from WI. He is from the east coast and says I say words funny.
2) Do you think every region has an accent of some sort? Yes but the ones that always stand out to me are East Coast (Boston, Jersey) and South (Texas, Tennessee etc.)
3) What words/phrases/etc are exclusive to your area? Like Kelly said, bubbler is one, and we say soda instead of pop. (I like to say soda-pop though)
1) Do you consider yourself to have an accent? - yes, I do. I have a Southern accent and I'm okay with that. I don't think that it's so thick that I sound like an idiot or anything.
2) Do you think every region has an accent of some sort? - yes I do. I think when others speak differently than what you're used to hearing, you're going to notice it. For example, I noticed MB's accent right away when we first met.
3) What words/phrases/etc are exclusive to your area? - y'all, fixin' to, git, we call all varieties of soft drinks "coke", I don't know what else...I think the South is pretty notorious for having exclusive words/phrases.
ETA: I didn't know we were supposed to explain the phrases. Y'all already know what y'all is, I'm sure.
"fixin' to" as in "Hey y'all, I'm fixin to run down to the Walmart. Y'all wanna go?"
"What kinda coke y'all want?"
(imagine I am calling my dog to come inside) "Git in here, Finn! Git!"
ETA again: I just thought of another one. My CW just said "I reckon I'll go down to the post office if y'all don't want to."
Once in awhile Billy will call them subs but its rare.
Its a cart or sometimes we will say wagon.
My dad is from Idaho and he calls plastic bags sacks, and soda pop
1) Do you consider yourself to have an accent?
I don't think I have much of an accent. I'm originally from South-Central PA and I don't think they have much of an accent. Since I've moved to Central VA, I've noticed occasionally I'll say something with a bit of a southern accent, and I quickly correct myself. DH has lived here all his life and he only has a slight accent.
2) Do you think every region has an accent of some sort?
Some but not all.
3) What words/phrases/etc are exclusive to your area?
I can't think of anything specific to this area, although they do say "buggy" instead of "cart" down here which drives me CRAZY. But I know this is also done in other areas too.
Other things that are different here than from what I'm used to:
Feel is pronounced "fill". Same way with "steal=still". And "hill" is pronounced "heel". I don't get it.
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Everyone here says I say "bologna" wrong. I say it like it's spelled, and everyone else says "baloney". I may be wrong about this though, but baloney sounds dumb to me.
I'm pretty sure it really is pronounced baloney.
You're right. I looked up the pronunciation online, and I say it like the Italian city is pronounced.
It still sounds weird to me though.
1) Do you consider yourself to have an accent? A little. I think the Midwest has some slight accents. We pronounce really sharp "o"s - "mom" sounds more like "maam" etc.
2) Do you think every region has an accent of some sort? a little. Like pps have said, I think the western regions have less so. Like no one born and raised in CO has an accent.
3) What words/phrases/etc are exclusive to your area? like Mary mentioned, STL calls them sub (sandwiches). A lot of people in the Midwest pronounce "wash" as "warsh" (thank heavens I'm not one of them). I can't think of anyting exclusive to CO. I guess calling certain mountains "14ers" for being 14k+ feet is kind of unique to here. We have a lot of ski/snowboard slang, but I think that's more of a ski culture thing than a CO thing.
And I'm pretty sure that's how everyone, everywhere, pronounces it.
updated 10.03.12
Thank you, The Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler!
I don't think I have an accent, but sometimes people tell me I have a Southern accent, and sometimes people tell me I talk like a New Yorker. Idk, I think I just talk like whoever I'm around.
1) Do you consider yourself to have an accent? Yes and I'm totally ok with it.
2) Do you think every region has an accent of some sort? Yes, even if it's not exactly an accent, per se, each region has it's own way of saying certain words
3) What words/phrases/etc are exclusive to your area? Besides those that MB already listed: Celler = basement, Dunks = Dunkin Donuts, Packie = Liquor Store, Jimmies = Chocolate Sprinkles, Bang a U-y (said "you-ie") = Make a U-turn, some people call soda "tonic" (I did when I was younger), & good luck pronouncing the city Worcester correctly if you are not from around here.
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1) Do you consider yourself to have an accent? Definitely. People in the south say I don't have one, but anywhere else people are like "WHUUUYTTT?" It's not Beverly Hillbilies severe. It's Maci from Teen Mom. It's weird for me when people make fun of the way she talks. I think she sounds totally normal.
2) Do you think every region has an accent of some sort? Not so much for people from the west/southwest. Some areas of the north are more severe than others and places in the middle like Virgina, Ohio, North Carolina don't seem to.
3) What words/phrases/etc are exclusive to your area? Everything that Ames said. I see nothing wrong with saying y'all. Technically, it makes more sense that you guys. I pronounce certain vowels funny, like my cousins from St. Louis were making fun of the way I say pie and pen.
A little mystery can bring magic into anyone's life!
updated 10.03.12
Pie = pah
Pen = pin
Hehehe, now, every time I read your posts they will be in Macy's voice.
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Bint-leeeee!
DD, don't feel bad. When MB and I were in PA at Stees' house they kept making me say Facebook and Bentley. Apparently it was humorous.
*snicker*
updated 10.03.12
Get in the CAH, MaryBeth!
1) Do you consider yourself to have an accent?
No. Unless you consider it a "flat" accent. I've never been told I pronounce anything in a particular way.
2) Do you think every region has an accent of some sort? I suppose. Like someone mentioned, some are MUCH easier to pick out than others. I don't generally notice accents in most people unless they're from up north (Canada, some parts of Minnesota), Boston, some parts of New York, Chicago, or the deep south. Most people from neighboring states (Iowa, Kansas, South Dakota) don't sound any different to me unless they're particularly rural, and then I hear a stereotypical farmer's/hick accent on some words.
3) What words/phrases/etc are exclusive to your area?
I think the exclusive words or pronunciations tend to be in the more rural areas of Nebraska, like "warsh," like Nooner mentioned. I can't think of anything in particular that people say in Omaha. We do say "pop" instead of "soda" around here, though sometimes I call it "soda" myself after being in St. Louis so much. The "bag" vs "sack" ratio is about 50/50 -- I hear both used. Parents tend to call pacifiers "binkies" here too, is that normal?
And I have never heard a water fountain called a bubbler til I read this thread.
We just call 'em Walmart bags. Doesn't matter if they're actually from Walmart or not.
This must be an Arkansas thing. I call them plastic bags or grocery bag. I despise Walmart.
I'll give them Bentley, but how do you say facebook weird?
Well I am in Walmart country (I can walk to their headquarters from my office), so we don't have many other options.
I don't know. I didn't know I was saying it weird until they pointed it out. I say it like Fayce-buck.
Oh I probably say fayce, too. I definitely say book though.
How do you say book though? I always say it like buck. not like booooook.
I say it with the double oo sound, like look. I don't think either of those sound like buck or luck....... but I think pin=pen, so what do I know. ;-)