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 Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2008 11:59 pm
I've spent 19 of my 25 years living in the St. Louis Metro East (Illinois) area. The only time I got told I had an accent was when I was in the 2nd grade and one of the other kids said I had a nice accent. If anything I have a bit of a southern accent, but it only really shows up when I extremely tired or counting. It drives some of my friends nuts when it happens. Now if you ask any of my family from Arkansas I talk like a Yankee. *shrugs*
And depending on who I am with depends on what I call a "carbonated beverage". Friends: Soda Family: Coke (everything is a coke to them)
The only accents I really have trouble understanding are Itailian and Spanish. WOrking in a hotel has me coming across many differnt accents and having no choice but to try to understand them with out loosing my temper or the guest loosing theirs. sweatdrop
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Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2008 8:51 am
Here's a question for those that call all carbonated soft drinks coke: how do people know when you actually want a Coke?
"And for you?"
"I'll have a Coke."
"What kind?"
"Just regular."
"Regular what?"
"Coke."
"What kind of coke?"
Or am I just being silly?
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Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2008 12:38 pm
Sheboygan Milad Here's a question for those that call all carbonated soft drinks coke: how do people know when you actually want a Coke? "And for you?" "I'll have a Coke." "What kind?" "Just regular." "Regular what?" "Coke." "What kind of coke?" Or am I just being silly? no i have another one: "one coke light please" "what kind of coke?" "light" well i forgot that they call it diet coke in that region..... xp
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Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2008 1:59 pm
I don't get hung up on accents. I've only even come across maybe two people that I couldn't understand. Though this is coming from someone who was compliments on his Japanese because I sounded just like my tutor. I guess I have a good ear.
Growing up I called it pop but now I refer to it as soda. All my family in Atlanta call it Coke.
Now, I'm i've been drinking or am very tired I tend to shift through accents.
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Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2008 3:41 pm
Sheboygan Milad Here's a question for those that call all carbonated soft drinks coke: how do people know when you actually want a Coke? "And for you?" "I'll have a Coke." "What kind?" "Just regular." "Regular what?" "Coke." "What kind of coke?" Or am I just being silly?
Now if you'll excuse me I have some tea I need to finish.
Oh, I almost forgot! I do know that when I'm singing I tend to "say" words differently. For example: Fire is pronounced Fiuh when I sing or Evil is pronounced Eville. I dunno why (there's another example right there. xd )
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Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2008 4:34 pm
I'm from an old Southern family. My mom is from an upper-class family in southwest Georgia, so they all speak like Jimmy Carter. Mother becomes "mothah," father becomes "fah-thah," Martha (my mom's name) is pronounced "Mahh-thah", and Jimmy Carter is pronounced "Jimmy Cah-tah." You get the general idea: lots of softened R's, elongated "ah" sounds, and an accent quite unlike the Southern stereotype.
My dad is from a poor family in southeast Georgia, so the accent is pretty much what you'd expect of someone from the Coastal South to sound like: lots of hardened sounds.
My mom no longer speaks with the accent that the rest of her family does, so I didn't pick up any of that. I had a little bit of my dad's accent growing up, and when my family moved to a half-rural, half-suburban town that was caught somewhere between suburban north Atlanta and the North Georgia mountains, I picked up a pretty good accent in high school.
When I left for college in Atlanta, the crappy friends I had my freshman year made fun of my accent relentlessly. sad I quickly lost the accent, since for the most part it was something I'd only picked up in my high school years anyway, and haven't had much of one since. Now I only have a Southern accent if I'm really tired, really frustrated, or have just spent an extended amount of time with my family. 4laugh
When I tell my students that I've lived in Georgia my whole life, they're usually surprised because I have no accent. A lot of them are ESL students from Korea, so they'd definitely notice if I did have one. One girl even told me that she thought I sounded like I was from California. xd
Also, even though most of my neighbors call all varieties of carbonated beverages by the name "Coke", I've always called it soda. However, the two sides of my family do debate over the proper pronunciation of the word "pecan." My mom and I say "PUH-cahn"; my dad and my sister say "pee-CAN". True story! xd
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Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2008 5:32 pm
I just realized there are a few other words I say differently.
arrow Whenever I say "good night" it usually comes out "g'night".
arrow I sometimes say 'im or 'em when refering to him or them (respectively).
arrow A lot of my "L" words don't come out correctly all the time either because of a problem I had when I was younger. I don't know why, but I've always had troubles saying "L" words -- especially "silver" and "sliver" they both come out wrong. xp
arrow I also (unlike a lot of midwestern speakers, Kansasans in particular) say I-ther and NI-ther instead of EEther and KNEEther.
arrow And the more I got to thinking about the title of this thread the more I've realized I say "Lick-ore" more quickly than "Lick-her" most of the time I think I say "Lick-ore" but I do find myself saying "Lick-er" which also has me to thinking that SOMEtimes I say 'er instead of her. confused
arrow Last but not least I've noticed that a lot of people (or should I say "a lotta people" sorta (sort of) put "a" on the end of words when the word "of" is used around here. (Also people put "a" when saying "to" or just drop the "o" and say "ta" such as "gotta go" or "let's go t'the mall" sometimes they even say "da" instead of "the".)
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Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2008 8:15 pm
Oh my dad there's others but I don't really mind accents at all unless I don't understand an accent. My dad and I since his from PA he says that sound like "hang-ger" while I say it "hang-er", I swear we slightly argue about this like the word ask which some people prounounce and sounds like "ax"; and I sometimes joke "well don't axe me now..." xd lol but I think they don't understand that... lol lol.
Well some people would say "what accent?" when they talk to me; but I used to get making fun of all through middle school because of my accent and my classmate will laugh even if they say it's cute and say "say it again". My accent gets really bad (or comes out) when I am nervous, or really angry. Like the word "b***h" and I would mistakenly say "beach" this was middle school...lmao hahaha. If I think about 2 words stressed that sound the same real hard about how to pronounce it, then my accent comes out lol.
Edit: Not to mention my son has an accent all by his own; he use to say Vincent and say "10cent"; so I always joke "Watch out now 50cent; 10cent is here..."...lol but now he just say "Bencent". whee
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Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 5:15 pm
I know one thing that confuses people is that there are two towns called Beaufort here, one in NC and the other is a SC city. North Carolinians pronounce the one here on our coast like "bowfurt," while South Carolinians say theirs as "buufurt." Most of the native people in NC tend not to mind that much if you mispronounce the name; it just immediately gives you away as a visitor. Those from South Carolina, though, seem to get a little bit more hostile about it for some reason. neutral
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Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 11:55 am
One thing I just thought of that hadn't occured to me until now for whatecer reason is that around here in Baltimore, especially the closer you get to the city (as opposed to the county) people tend to refer to each other as "Cuz" (short for "Cousin" I suppose). In the County, the perferred term seems to be "Dude".
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Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2008 12:17 am
Utah. Yeah.
Most here say Pop. (I say Soda. But I lived in Texas and that Coke thing drove me NUTS. "Want a Coke?" "Okay." "All we have is Orange." IS THERE A NEW KIND OF COKE?! ORANGE COKE?! What the heck is that?!)
Also, skipping/ditching/missing-without-permission school = Sluffing school
Fry sauce. That's big here. Basically, it's mayo and ketchup and spices.
Let's see, what else...
Mountains = Moun'ins (I am guilty of that sometimes when I get lazy)
Sunday, Monday, etc. = Sundee, Mundee, etc. (NEVER. But my dad does and it drives me nuts. I think it is an OLDER, Farmer-type Utah thing he got from his Dad)
Swimsuits or swimming suits
A Bikini, specifically, is just a bikini.
pancakes vs. flapjacks (I say pancake)
cracker vs. biscuit (crackers are crackers and biscuits are biscuits... they are not interchangeable. Crackers are crunchy things. You often crumble them in soup. Like saltine crackers or Wheat Thins or Goldfish or Oyster Crackers or whatever. Biscuits are, like a fluffy-sh thing you bake and eat with butter and sometimes jam. round and a little flattish on top unlike rolls. But similar to rolls.
university vs. college (universities are 4 year and have masters degrees and certain other qualifications. colleges can be 2 or 4 year, etc.. )
french fries vs. chips (we say fries are, you know, those skinny cut potatoes with hamburgers. Chips are Doritos, Cheetos, potato chips, etc. crunchy things in bags. English chips are those little bite of potato fried in, I don't know, batter? Like "Fish and Chips" at a restaurant.
Oh, and I say Pecan Pee-CAHN
We do say Heck a LOT. Well, lots of those silly fakey profanities are not jokes here... gosh, heck,etc.
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Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2008 1:54 pm
Yeah, I say "pe cahn" as well, namely because the way most people pronounce "pee can" hurts my ears. The majority of my friends and family also say soda because the Coke versus Pepsi debate here actually refers to the drinks themselves since Pepsi was born in NC. rolleyes
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Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2008 4:19 pm
Okay, I just have to tackle this whole "pe can" vs. "puh cauhn" et. al. debate. blaugh Mostly because I love pecan pie and it just wouldn't be right if I missed it. lol Anyway, I say "puh-cauhn" because "pee-can" and "pee-cauh" etc. just gets lots of dirty looks around here. confused But a lot of older people say both of those through my line a lot at the grocery store. xd
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Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2008 6:24 pm
a biscuit to me = a sweet, shortbread cookie or a dog treat
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Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2008 5:56 am
I'm from Pennsylvania, northwest, I guess it is haha. I don't think we have an accent really. Some people talk hillbilly and some talk like hicks. I've noticed that sometimes I say winner instead of winter. We call creeks, cricks. My granddad speaks some weird accent but he's from the town next to ours. I never really understood why he talks the way he does. He'll say shears instead of scissors and deaf is deef. I've never really looked to see if the people around here have accents. I'll have to look into that more.
And it's pop, never soda! xd
A pecan is a pee-cauhn to me. ^^
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