"You have a Midland accent" is just another way of saying "you don't have an accent." You probably are from the Midland (Pennsylvania, southern Ohio, southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and Missouri) but then for all we know you could be from Florida or Charleston or one of those big southern cities like Atlanta or Dallas. You have a good voice for TV and radio.
That works out well!
That test didn't ask anything about the pronunciation of the letter "i" or the use of "compound words".
You would go into a restaurant and the server would ask you what you wanted to drink, and I'd say "a coke". Then they'd ask, "what kind of coke?". Then I'd say "Dr. Pepper".
"You have a Midland accent" is just another way of saying "you don't have an accent." You probably are from the Midland (Pennsylvania, southern Ohio, southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and Missouri) but then for all we know you could be from Florida or Charleston or one of those big southern cities like Atlanta or Dallas. You have a good voice for TV and radio.
That works out well!
That test didn't ask anything about the pronunciation of the letter "i" or the use of "compound words".
Yeah, that test said that I eat philly cheese steaks a lot because I have a Philadelphia accent. I've been to Philadelphia MS several times, but I don't think that's what they meant.
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(05-07-2013 12:54 PM)Jacque Wrote:
(05-07-2013 10:58 AM)gdunn Wrote:
(05-07-2013 10:56 AM)VA49er Wrote:
(05-07-2013 09:13 AM)gdunn Wrote: There's an accent in Carolina that I couldn't even understand.
Were you in the mountains?
No sir.. I was in Fayetteville.. Ol' Boy was from somewhere out deep in Robeson County.
If he was from that area, the man was probably a Lumbee Indian, which some say is descended from the Lost Colony of Jamestown and is a mixture of English settlers, Native Americans and African Americans. Others say that it is an Indian tribe related to the other tribes of North Carolina, namely Cherokee I think, but the Lumbees do not subscribe ot that line of thinking. Both their appearance and speech are different than anything that I have seen or heard anywhere else. My daughter went to college in Robeson County for several years so I had the opportunity to meet many Lumbees and they are some of the friendliest and nicest people that I have ever met.
He wasn't Lumbee, daddy. I know Lumbee.. He was redneck.. I'm not sure where he was from originally.. It was like he mumbled.
"You have a Midland accent" is just another way of saying "you don't have an accent." You probably are from the Midland (Pennsylvania, southern Ohio, southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and Missouri) but then for all we know you could be from Florida or Charleston or one of those big southern cities like Atlanta or Dallas. You have a good voice for TV and radio.
That works out well!
That test didn't ask anything about the pronunciation of the letter "i" or the use of "compound words".
Yeah, that test said that I eat philly cheese steaks a lot because I have a Philadelphia accent. I've been to Philadelphia MS several times, but I don't think that's what they meant.
The test states I am from the "Inland North". It is quite a shock because the paternal side of my family has mainly resided in the Southeastern United States for over 300 years.
(This post was last modified: 05-07-2013 06:44 PM by Tiger1983.)
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They are missing one special accent from the florida keys. Where they are know as bubbas. For example, down there they pronounce down as dawn. This is more specifically Key West in nature.
"You have a Midland accent" is just another way of saying "you don't have an accent." You probably are from the Midland (Pennsylvania, southern Ohio, southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and Missouri) but then for all we know you could be from Florida or Charleston or one of those big southern cities like Atlanta or Dallas. You have a good voice for TV and radio.
That works out well!
That test didn't ask anything about the pronunciation of the letter "i" or the use of "compound words".
You would go into a restaurant and the server would ask you what you wanted to drink, and I'd say "a coke". Then they'd ask, "what kind of coke?". Then I'd say "Dr. Pepper".
That's how we ordered here in Huntington back in the 70's and earlier.
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(05-07-2013 09:45 AM)oldtiger Wrote:
(05-07-2013 04:26 AM)forerunner Wrote: Oh wow, this video from the list of dialects sounds very similar to Coach Coker to me (mostly in the intro). Lewis Grizzard is from Georgia and Larry Coker is from Oklahoma, but the pronunciation and cadence is pretty close.
We lost one of our best southern story tellers when we lost Lewis.
classical southern
" that dog would bite you".... lol
kids today know exactly what prophylactic is but couldnt find one if you told them it was on the veranda.
(This post was last modified: 05-07-2013 09:08 PM by shere khan.)
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(05-07-2013 09:45 AM)oldtiger Wrote:
(05-07-2013 04:26 AM)forerunner Wrote: Oh wow, this video from the list of dialects sounds very similar to Coach Coker to me (mostly in the intro). Lewis Grizzard is from Georgia and Larry Coker is from Oklahoma, but the pronunciation and cadence is pretty close.
We lost one of our best southern story tellers when we lost Lewis.
I still listen to Jerry Clower's old stuff. I was fortunate enough to see him at a farm show in the late 90's.
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I just took a dialect quiz to see how I speak and it said neutral accent. "You`re not Northern, Southern, or Western, you`re just plain -American-." Damn straight!
Funny cause I was born in New Jersey and moved to North Carolina when I was 10. My family in the North thinks I have a Southern accent and I don't think anyone down here has ever commented on the way I speak one way or another.
I don't know where this comes from or if it is even a part of any dialect but I don't really pronounce the letter T unless it is at the beginning of a word. It usually turns into a d. Anyone know where that comes from?
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(05-06-2013 08:47 PM)Thegoldstandard Wrote:
(05-06-2013 03:31 PM)DawgNBama Wrote: I thought most people where I lived talked a lot different than the average 'Bama or Auburn fan!!! Where I live is classified as lowland South, which actually puts more of an emphasis on proper English as compared to the central or northern parts of the state. BTW, very interesting stuff blazr.
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(05-08-2013 10:51 PM)TheEastisPurple Wrote: I just took a dialect quiz to see how I speak and it said neutral accent. "You`re not Northern, Southern, or Western, you`re just plain -American-." Damn straight!
Funny cause I was born in New Jersey and moved to North Carolina when I was 10. My family in the North thinks I have a Southern accent and I don't think anyone down here has ever commented on the way I speak one way or another.
I don't know where this comes from or if it is even a part of any dialect but I don't really pronounce the letter T unless it is at the beginning of a word. It usually turns into a d. Anyone know where that comes from?
EastisPurple, your post intrigued me, because my wife moved down south from NJ as a teen. So I quizzed her & put her though my phonetic test.
My observation was, she does pronounce, but not have a heavy pronunciation on her letter T, unless it's leading a sentence.
My very murky conclusion is, it's very possible it's a blending of the regional accents causing the T's to be a bit silent, with the Southern dialect being the catalyst.
Anyway, it's my amateur observations, so take it for what it's worth (not much).
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I used to consider myself neutral as far as accents go until I first went to Northern areas like NY and NJ. They thought I sounded like a total redneck but my family in SC is southern sounding.
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(05-07-2013 12:54 PM)Jacque Wrote:
(05-07-2013 10:58 AM)gdunn Wrote:
(05-07-2013 10:56 AM)VA49er Wrote:
(05-07-2013 09:13 AM)gdunn Wrote: There's an accent in Carolina that I couldn't even understand.
Were you in the mountains?
No sir.. I was in Fayetteville.. Ol' Boy was from somewhere out deep in Robeson County.
If he was from that area, the man was probably a Lumbee Indian, which some say is descended from the Lost Colony of Jamestown and is a mixture of English settlers, Native Americans and African Americans. Others say that it is an Indian tribe related to the other tribes of North Carolina, namely Cherokee I think, but the Lumbees do not subscribe ot that line of thinking. Both their appearance and speech are different than anything that I have seen or heard anywhere else. My daughter went to college in Robeson County for several years so I had the opportunity to meet many Lumbees and they are some of the friendliest and nicest people that I have ever met.
This is gonna sound so bad but anyway lumbee girls are easy lol
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(05-07-2013 03:10 PM)gdunn Wrote:
(05-07-2013 12:54 PM)Jacque Wrote:
(05-07-2013 10:58 AM)gdunn Wrote:
(05-07-2013 10:56 AM)VA49er Wrote:
(05-07-2013 09:13 AM)gdunn Wrote: There's an accent in Carolina that I couldn't even understand.
Were you in the mountains?
No sir.. I was in Fayetteville.. Ol' Boy was from somewhere out deep in Robeson County.
If he was from that area, the man was probably a Lumbee Indian, which some say is descended from the Lost Colony of Jamestown and is a mixture of English settlers, Native Americans and African Americans. Others say that it is an Indian tribe related to the other tribes of North Carolina, namely Cherokee I think, but the Lumbees do not subscribe ot that line of thinking. Both their appearance and speech are different than anything that I have seen or heard anywhere else. My daughter went to college in Robeson County for several years so I had the opportunity to meet many Lumbees and they are some of the friendliest and nicest people that I have ever met.
He wasn't Lumbee, daddy. I know Lumbee.. He was redneck.. I'm not sure where he was from originally.. It was like he mumbled.
Oh the pattern of speech is what is known as Drunken redneck. That can be found anywhere in the southeastern United States
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(05-11-2013 06:08 PM)AtlantaEagle Wrote:
(05-08-2013 10:51 PM)TheEastisPurple Wrote: I just took a dialect quiz to see how I speak and it said neutral accent. "You`re not Northern, Southern, or Western, you`re just plain -American-." Damn straight!
Funny cause I was born in New Jersey and moved to North Carolina when I was 10. My family in the North thinks I have a Southern accent and I don't think anyone down here has ever commented on the way I speak one way or another.
I don't know where this comes from or if it is even a part of any dialect but I don't really pronounce the letter T unless it is at the beginning of a word. It usually turns into a d. Anyone know where that comes from?
EastisPurple, your post intrigued me, because my wife moved down south from NJ as a teen. So I quizzed her & put her though my phonetic test.
My observation was, she does pronounce, but not have a heavy pronunciation on her letter T, unless it's leading a sentence.
My very murky conclusion is, it's very possible it's a blending of the regional accents causing the T's to be a bit silent, with the Southern dialect being the catalyst.
Anyway, it's my amateur observations, so take it for what it's worth (not much).
That's very interesting. May very well be a product of the combination of the two dialects. For me it's not just not pronouncing it as much though, but completely changing it from T to D unless it is at the beginning or end of a word. Tank is still tank and bat is still bat, but whatever is whadever and better is bedder. May just be I'm lazy or have a speech impediment.
Out of curiosity does she say y'all or a'int? Those are some southern words I never picked up. My uncle up north said yous guys, I don't go that far but a group of people is still "you guys" for me, not "y'all".
Also does she say yes sir/yes ma'am? I get criticism from my more southern rooted family and friends because I don't say that unless I am talking to someone who I know strongly prefers to be addressed that way for their sake. When I was growing up saying yes sir/yes ma'am was considered sassing or talking back to adults. I don't know if that is as much a Northern thing or just my family.
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Ya'll don't have a monopoly on accents. Cajuns have their accents and they're proud of it, us poor Mexicans have one and we're look down on. Heck, here in El Paso even those not Hispanic speak like us or they have that little intonation that sounds like a Mexican is speaking. If you're curious as to what I'm talking about just listen to a Mex-American from Los Angeles even though he may have been speaking English and only English his whole life he still speaks like a Mexican that just learned the language. Don't ask me why it just is. Me, for instance, have a lousy time pronouncing words that sound alike and my wife gives me grief for it like piece and piss. One time I went through a drive thru and didn't watch my p's and asked the lady behind the speaker for a two-piss chicken dinner. Ha, talk about my wife having a good time with my dilemma, yes sir, she did. In school one time the teacher was telling us a story and he asked us what the moral of the story was and I raised my hand and I told him, "don't **** or you'll suffer the consequences". Needless to say the teacher got red in the face the students were on the floor laughing and I in great astonishment was wondering what was so funny. After composing himself he said, "it's cheat" now say it. I practiced a bit without sound coming out and blurted out, "****". Again, the whole class was beside themselves with laughter. The teacher was glowing with hatred for me as he thought I was doing it on purpose but heck as far as I was concerned I was pronouncing it right.
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(05-07-2013 12:39 PM)blunderbuss Wrote:
(05-07-2013 12:29 AM)ODUgradstudent Wrote:
(05-06-2013 11:33 PM)blunderbuss Wrote: Mazda = first "a" sounds like the "a" in apple.
garage = see above
Pasta = see above
decal = da-call
lever = rhymes with beaver
defense = spelled defence (Queen's English) with accent on 2nd sylable
All of these are correct
Actually, I'd say decal is dee-call. The pronunciation that gets my goat is leisure rhyming with seizure. Fortunately, I hear the version that rhymes with pleasure much more often. That and pronouncing research as ree-search. RAGE.
One of my personal favourites (note the Queen's spelling, ie uneccessary 'u') is SH-edule for schedule as I work in constrution planning.
English and French written on just about every consumable is also pretty funny. My wife likes when I try to use the French word for stuff. She can actually speak a little French and I just butcher it completely.
As you alluded to earlier, Newfoundland English is near incomprehensible to those outside the province, including those from nearby Nova Scotia, PEI, or New Brunswick.
Irish or Scottish English is easy in comparison. Of course, Newfoundland was its own nation/crown colony for centuries and didn't join Canada until the late 1940s--isolated and kept its own unique culture and language. In a way, it reminded me of south Louisiana and the cajun culture.
Hmmm . . . . fried cod tongues and seal flipper pie.
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Again, the northern & central parts of the state. 
