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nikkiana · 04-03-2009, 06:09 PM

I have the Eastern New England accent, though I seem to pick up an Urban Boston accent sometimes.

ItWasMe · 04-03-2009, 08:41 PM

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Originally Posted by snowy

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.

Randerolf · 04-04-2009, 02:49 AM

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>

little_tippler · 04-04-2009, 03:07 AM

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.

Tully Mars · 04-04-2009, 03:52 AM

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Originally Posted by Fotzlid

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.

bobby · 04-06-2009, 06:29 AM

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Originally Posted by Tully Mars

Same here. Now excuse me while I go warsh my truck.

Hahahahah...I live in Warshington......xoxoxoo

samcol · 04-06-2009, 06:33 AM

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.

Poppinjay · 04-06-2009, 08:07 AM

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.

MSD · 04-06-2009, 11:35 AM

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.

thespian86 · 04-09-2009, 06:13 AM

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Originally Posted by SabrinaFair

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

~Melee~ · 04-09-2009, 08:58 PM

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.

Jetée · 04-11-2009, 06:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Randerolf

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.

snowy · 04-11-2009, 07:10 PM

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).

Leto · 07-06-2009, 12:42 PM

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Originally Posted by snowy

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?

FelixP · 07-06-2009, 03:32 PM

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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').

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.

Toaster126 · 07-06-2009, 05:29 PM

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Originally Posted by ngdawg

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. :/

Redlemon · 07-07-2009, 05:36 AM

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.

Giant Hamburger · 07-07-2009, 07:09 AM

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.

04-03-2009, 06:09 PM	#41 (permalink)
nikkiana Tilted Location: Brooklyn, NY	I have the Eastern New England accent, though I seem to pick up an Urban Boston accent sometimes. __________________ nikkiana

04-04-2009, 03:07 AM	#44 (permalink)
little_tippler Leaning against the -Sun- Super Moderator Location: on the other side	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. __________________ Whether we write or speak or do but look We are ever unapparent. What we are Cannot be transfused into word or book. Our soul from us is infinitely far. However much we give our thoughts the will To be our soul and gesture it abroad, Our hearts are incommunicable still. In what we show ourselves we are ignored. The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged By any skill of thought or trick of seeming. Unto our very selves we are abridged When we would utter to our thought our being. We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams, And each to each other dreams of others' dreams. Fernando Pessoa, 1918

04-06-2009, 06:33 AM	#47 (permalink)
samcol Junkie Location: Indiana	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. __________________ It's time for the president to hand over his nobel peace prize.

04-06-2009, 08:07 AM	#48 (permalink)
Poppinjay You had me at hello Location: DC/Coastal VA	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. __________________ I think the Apocalypse is happening all around us. We go on eating desserts and watching TV. I know I do. I wish we were more capable of sustained passion and sustained resistance. We should be screaming and what we do is gossip. -Lydia Millet

04-11-2009, 07:10 PM	#53 (permalink)
snowy Kick Ass Kunoichi Location: Oregon	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). __________________ If I am not better, at least I am different. --Jean-Jacques Rousseau

04-04-2009, 02:49 AM	#43 (permalink)
Randerolf Fireball Location: ~	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>

04-06-2009, 11:35 AM	#49 (permalink)
MSD The sky calls to us ... Super Moderator Location: CT	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.

04-09-2009, 08:58 PM	#51 (permalink)
~Melee~ Upright Location: Indiana	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.

07-07-2009, 05:36 AM	#57 (permalink)
Redlemon Devoted Donor Location: New England	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. __________________ I can't read your signature. Sorry.

07-07-2009, 07:09 AM	#58 (permalink)
Giant Hamburger Gastrolithuanian Location: low-velocity Earth orbit	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.