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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.(as in 'gonna' ... I say 'gunna').
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I talk like that and I'm from NW Ohio. I think television plays a major role in all of this, because we see characters on TV that we like/idolize, we try to emulate them (or just pick up their speech patterns subconciously). Same thing goes for actors, atheletes, people we know IRL, etc.