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Originally Posted by ItWasMe
I'm in Snowy's neck of the woods. If yer ever in the area, I'll make a cup-u-coffee fur you. I spelled it the way I pronounce it. I never thought about it before, but I guess I pronounce 'your' as 'yer' , 'of' as 'u' , and 'for' as 'fur' (Snowy mentioned that one). And I'm in the Portland area.
Head over to North Eastern Oregon (still Pacific NW) and we have family members that sound like a cross between Texas and Kansas. And they pronounce 'no' as 'nah' , and 'going to' as 'go-nah' (as in 'gonna' ... I say 'gunna').
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I'd love to know how eastern KS and western MO acquired their twangs. I have a best friend in Mo and another in TN. When I got them talking on the phone, the MO one started to giggle and tell the other "You have an accent, how cute!" to which I replied, "So do you, silly!" But the MO one does say things like "Ayuh" and "Right on" which comes out "Rat own". Oddly enough, his wife, also an MO native, sounds more "Fargoan".
I say "Nah" as well-most New Jerseyans do. I think if you want to pin down an accent/dialect, ask the person to pronounce "Orange"-that word has more pronunciations than any, I think.