Accents

[Low_Budget_Hooker]

OK, I take alot of heat for my accent.  No biggee, I'm very proud of where I come from.  Yes,...we do not use the letter "R" in many words.

ex.  "I'm gonna Pok the Cah"

Well guess what?  I'm not so odd.  I just noticed that the southern population have also omitted a letter from the alphabet.  The letter "T".  

ex.  "In the winner when it's get's cold..."

Funny how drastically different these 2 accents are, they mind as well be from 2 different countries!

[jb_from_texas]

Texas WAS it's own country till James Polk ran for President and vowed to get Texas. But among other things we didnt have to pay taxes to the Union because we gave up a considerable amount of territory. We also still have the ability to leave the Union though it will never happen.

Sorry I hijacked your thread, I'm kinda of a Texas history buff.

But back to your topic...we also make several words into one like:

sumbich (orginally S.O. And this can be a good thing or a bad thing. All depends on delivery

Fixina (Fixing to)

Y'all (Northerners say You Guys)

Also

All (that black stuff we drill for underground)

I could go on. It is fun to hear accents from other parts of the country and world.

jb

[RiskKid.]

I think accents are great. I grew up in NYC but have lived in Nashville since the mid 70's. I guess now I have this strange mixture of a NY and Southern combination accent. Actually it seems that depending who I'm around I can be bilingual with the accents. (ie....fugggeddaboudit ya'll)

It's a shame that with folks moving around so much it seems regional accents are diminshing and before long we'll all sound like TV reporters with no real accent.  

[Low_Budget_Hooker]

I think accents are great. I grew up in NYC but have lived in Nashville

Holy contrast!

JB- We do the same

Didjeet? (Hungry?) lol

[jb_from_texas]

Texan-ese

figger = to calculate

purdy = pretty

rang = jewelry you put on your finger

rot = opposite of left

sumpn = something

over yonder = just around the corner or over the hill a bit

wender = window

and why does NY'ers replace an "a" with "er" and "er" for an "a?"

My neighbors are Italian NY'ers that say they are "New Yolkas"

And they call by daughter "Alysser" when her name is Alyssa.

[fishingrulz]

lol my grandma used to say fifdeen=fifteen or saday...no need for a t lol! or the classic one...botel=bottle say them how they are spelt..lol

my fav's from NY/LI...hotdooog...cooofee etc etc lol accents ;D ;D

[Guest the_muddy_man]

Man I grew up in Brooklyn and spent several years in New Orleans where I kind of fit in Now Im livin in NE Pennsylvaine and these people talk FUNNY! I cant find a good glass of WATAH anywhere ;D

[Troutfisher]

West Virginia...one of the most stereotyped states in the Union.  No, almost all of West Virginia does wear shoes (NEWS FLASH!), and no one I know wears overalls and has a hayseed stuck in their mouth.  West Virginia is also thought of as a huge redneck speaking state.  Most of West Virginia has a "normal" accent (Although most all of West Virginia has a somewhat Appalachian tone), with the exception of some mountain folk, my grandpa included.  Here are some words in his vocabulary.

drank - drink

camry - camera

tar - tire

warsh - wash

ya'll (of course) - you all

corbet - culvert

y'reckon - do you think?

[BucketmouthAngler13]

hay LBH, i'm orrigonaly from upstate NY, so we use the term "didjeet"

Down south here in NJ most people dont know what we are talking about.

You know the round candy that is on the end of a stick that you suck on?

In NY they call them "suckers" and in NJ they call them "lollypops".

I'm like: "Want a sucker?" and people are like:  ""

[Gatorbassman]

Try growing up in the South with a mother who is a Massachusetts born speach teacher. I can't count how many times I have been asked "Where are you from?" from people in my own home town.

[Matt Fly]

Accents are just to show regionally locations or geography.

We stole our slang from across the border.      When the phone rings, its green, green, green, (ring, ring, ring)so we pink (pick) up the phone and say yellow(hello).

Thats Tex-Mex English, now you know why our schools are so bad.

Matt.

[CJ]

I am a southern bred redneck.I have been purse-cuted for my accent on several occasions(exspecially when I visit the in-laws in St.Louis.

They say youins',we say ya'll.

They say somewhere,we say summers.

They say "screw off"! We say "suck a f#rt out of my a@%!

[RoLo]

(True Story)

When we lived in Georgia we made two great friends: my fishing buddy Jerry and his wife Genova (were still the best of friends).

Genova worked all her life for Delta Airlines at Hartsfield Airport in Atlanta. In every case without fail, Genova pronounced "Delta"

as "DELTER". Trying to be funny one day, I intentionally called her "GENEVER", the equivalent of "Delter".

She smiled at me, shook her head back-and-forth and said, "We love you guys from the North, but you talk funny".

Roger

[fishbear]

My dad was from Kentucky, my mom from Oregon, and I was raised in Montana, and Washington state,, and now I live in Georgia....

I have ONE SCREWED UP ACCENT!    ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

am I the only one who pronounces dog  DAWG?????  GAWD, I hope not! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

[paparock]

Some times accents can be fun. Take the time the Army sent a bunch of us southern boys to Yale University. We noticed walking around campus that everyone seemed to stare at the ground as they walked and did not seem to greet each other much. When we would greet them they would step of the sidewalks and stare at us as if we were from another planet. So we decided to have some fun. We would wait until we were almost face-to-face and then if a very loud voice in unison say " HI Y'ALL!" It may have not been much fun for them but the reactions we witnessed were quite entertaining from our perspective.

[Low_Budget_Hooker]

(True Story)

When we lived in Georgia we made two great friends: my fishing buddy Jerry and his wife Genova (were still the best of friends).

Genova worked all her life for Delta Airlines at Hartsfield Airport in Atlanta. In every case without fail, Genova pronounced "Delta"

as "DELTER". Trying to be funny one day, I intentionally called her "GENEVER", the equivalent of "Delter".

She smiled at me, shook her head back-and-forth and said, "We love you guys from the North, but you talk funny".

Roger

Classic  

[5bass]

LBH,funny you started this thread.....the end of that last message you left on my phone was overheard by the wife. ;D She said "Is that Frank?" I said no,thats Russ.

Frank is my dad's next door neighbor.....who moved here from Jersey.You sounded just like him,no kidding.I didnt think you're accent would be that thick but I found out different after I bought some new speakers and heard it on one of your videos.

And I thought Cholly Mooah (Charlie Moore) had an accent.

[Siebert Outdoors]

I dont have an accent but the rest of you guys do. ;D

I am a customer service manager and I talk to people all over the US.  It is to the point that when someone calls in I can pretty much tell what part of the country they are calling from.  Some accents are so distinct I can usually pinpoint the state.  

Some of my favorites,  KY, TN, GA

[Murray]

any soft drink in alabama is a "coke" it could be sprite and we would still call it a coke...i hate the word soda and i despise the word pop

[jb_from_texas]

any soft drink in alabama is a "coke" it could be sprite and we would still call it a coke...i hate the word soda and i despise the word pop

Hey Murray, that's the same in Texas.  no mater what, it is a coke.

Conversations go like this..."You want a coke?  What you want, a sprite, dp, etc?"

(Dr Pepper, a Texas orginal from a Waco pharmacy)

I had to speak to a group of about 60 folks at a gathering up in NY.  The word naked came up in my improv and after a while i noticed the lost look on everyone's face.

Thats cause i pronounce it like "neck-id" instead of "Nay-kid"

[.ghoti.]

(ie....fugggeddaboudit ya'll)

Now that's funny. I don't care where you're from.

[senko_77]

My favorite northern word that I haven't heard down here in Georgia is "Bubbler"  They say water fountain here.  

[fishingJ]

I'm from Canada, and we can deffinatley hear all the different American accents. The only ones inside the country we have here is just a regular accent I guess, then newfoundlanders and have there own accent, french, and some farmers have a bit of a country accent, and then I guess the accents from all the immagrants, which I guess would be more then non-immagrants. Do Americans think we have accents?

[telecaster]

I'm originally from Mass.not far from Boston.Now I,m in Nh for the last 20 or so years, so I developed that mongrul Mass/Yankee slang. I have friends up here that really have that Fritz Weatherby(the nh crossroads guy)thing happening. Hey LBH; Were ya bin,We've pretty much shortened "didjeet" to just "jeet" maybe you didnt get the memo ;D I still think its wickked pissa to go ta Kellys down Reveer and drink a few frostys an have a roastbeef..

[telecaster]

fishing j; I dunno "ay" I figured I'd go get a pak of smokes "ay".. I goof with you a little,all my family on my moms side is from Nova Scoita and Ontario and my wifes is from NewBrunswick.