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Old 04-03-2009, 06:09 PM   #41 (permalink)
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I have the Eastern New England accent, though I seem to pick up an Urban Boston accent sometimes.
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Old 04-03-2009, 08:41 PM   #42 (permalink)
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How many of you use the "needs fixed" construction?



I'm curious, because my SO uses this speech pattern despite the fact he's lived in the PacNW his entire life, and it's not at all common here.
That would be me. Pretty common at our house.
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Old 04-04-2009, 02:49 AM   #43 (permalink)
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I was tongue-tied as a child and my speak coach spoke Ebonics, so I've always to be concious of the way I talk. When I worked at a hotel, people would come up with all kinds of guesses to where I was from. I grew up on the coast of northeast Florida.

Here is a link to a site where you can listen to speech accents from around North America and the world. <http://accent.gmu.edu/browse_maps/namerica.php>
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Old 04-04-2009, 03:07 AM   #44 (permalink)
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This is fascinating...I wish I could hear the differences.

I am in the 'I have an accent' category. Though I have no idea which...I sound like a mix between an american of some sort and an english person, mixed with a very faint, off-in-the-distance, 'I'm really portuguese' twang.
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Old 04-04-2009, 03:52 AM   #45 (permalink)
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Northeast.
I got an entire bag of R's I'm not using if anyone wants them.
I'm sure I have some G's as well.
Same here. Now excuse me while I go warsh my truck.
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Old 04-06-2009, 06:29 AM   #46 (permalink)
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Same here. Now excuse me while I go warsh my truck.

Hahahahah...I live in Warshington......xoxoxoo
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Old 04-06-2009, 06:33 AM   #47 (permalink)
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I live in Indiana and have heard that Indiana and Arizona have the most normal speaking dialects (rednecks and ebonics don't count). People actually train to speak this way if they are going to be on national news.
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Old 04-06-2009, 08:07 AM   #48 (permalink)
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I live in the Warshington that is ofter referred as, "those POLITISHUNS down there in WARSHINGTON....."

I used to hear those ads quite a bit when my family lived in CO.
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Old 04-06-2009, 11:35 AM   #49 (permalink)
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I'm Western New England, which is pretty close to North Midland and whatever the dark green is. It's a fairly pure dialect compared to formal English, but not quite so much as Inland Northern.
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Old 04-09-2009, 06:13 AM   #50 (permalink)
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My accent is fluid--get me around a bunch of Eastern Kentuckians, and I sound like I just came down off the mountain. Put me in a courtroom in Jefferson County (Louisville), and it gets flattened out considerably. None of this is consciously decided.

I sound much more Appalachian/"Southern" when I'm tired, mad, or drunk, or as I said, around people with similar accents. Long i's, dropped g's and all that. Also in certain social situations--if I'm hosting a party, I say things like, "Y'all come on in and get somethin' to eat." Not sure where that voice comes from, exactly. It's just my default setting in that sort of situation.
Me too. Even though I'm CANADIAN, I have an east coast accent and little habits (no g's on my ings, etc). When I moved to Toronto I slowly developed an Upper Canadian accent and attitude so when I go home I sound like a prick and then I come back here and I sound like a fucking fisherman
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Old 04-09-2009, 08:58 PM   #51 (permalink)
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According to that map, inland northern. But my friends from all over the U.S. claim that I speak with a bit of a drawl. That's what you get growing up in a rural area, I guess.
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Old 04-11-2009, 06:31 PM   #52 (permalink)
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I was tongue-tied as a child and my speak coach spoke Ebonics, so I've always to be concious of the way I talk. When I worked at a hotel, people would come up with all kinds of guesses to where I was from. I grew up on the coast of northeast Florida.

Here is a link to a site where you can listen to speech accents from around North America and the world. <http://accent.gmu.edu/browse_maps/namerica.php>
Thanks for the informative re-direct.
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Old 04-11-2009, 07:10 PM   #53 (permalink)
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Last week I was out at the local pub when I was approached by an older gentleman who correctly guessed where I was from based on my accent. I guess I must still sound like a Northwest Washingtonian after all these years (read: British Columbian-lite).
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Old 07-06-2009, 12:42 PM   #54 (permalink)
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Last week I was out at the local pub when I was approached by an older gentleman who correctly guessed where I was from based on my accent. I guess I must still sound like a Northwest Washingtonian after all these years (read: British Columbian-lite).
You made a Canadian reference. totally flying in the face of the thread title! Good on you eh?
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Old 07-06-2009, 03:32 PM   #55 (permalink)
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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').
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.
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Old 07-06-2009, 05:29 PM   #56 (permalink)
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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".
You can tell where someone grew up in KS or MO by how they talk. Eastern KS/Western MO, closer to Kansas City and surrounds, sounds like SW category, what they call "neutral/no accent" in other places. People farther out west or east start speaking in a... uh, more country way. I'd say more, but some guy in "Mizz-urr-ahh" might be fixin' to call the law on me. :/
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Old 07-07-2009, 05:36 AM   #57 (permalink)
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I'm from Massachusetts, parents from northern Jersey and central Pennsylvania. I don't have a Boston or New England accent. I have a tendency to put a 'k' sound at the end of works ending in "-ing", which is kind of German.
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Old 07-07-2009, 07:09 AM   #58 (permalink)
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I grew up in Houston but both sides of the family immigrated from Europe so I do not sound like I have the Gulf Southern dialect.

My vocabulary however is southern. I use "fixin" as an adverb i.e. "I am fixin' to post on this thread." I say "yes ma'am" to all females most of the time. I say CE-ment instead of cement, etc.
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