Accents?

[DGPhoney]

Hey all,
well being from the south, you know we all have an accent, but when I moved to MD, I picked up I guess the MD vibe , so I have a jumbled southern/Maryland accent.
Either way it's stuck with me, so I gotta love it
DGPhoney~

[Siobhan]

Originally posted by veruca76:
I'm not Canadian but I met a bunch of Canucks overseas. The primary thing we made fun of was the tendency to say ehhh after every sentence. The only person I know who really did it was this guy from Vancouver who also talked like the stereotypical Californian smoker/surfer boy. He'd draw out the ehhh all laid back. It was great! I also once met an Australian girl who said she could usually tell where in North America someone was from. Apparently I "sound" very middle America. Whatever

I find that west coast canadians and west coast american accents are fairly similar. As for that Vancouverite saying eh! a lot that is not very typical for a west coast canadian. Eh! is very popular back east. Oh and to clarify a couple of things we don't pronounce it A-BOOT. Out west we tend to talk more quickly, while easterns and east coasters tend to talk with a slower accent.

[phisigQT]

i am from md and people that are not from this area often tell me that i have an accent, even my b.f. who is from cheery hill in south jersey and has no accent himself says i do. i mean you never hear people say that marylanders have an accent...southerners and new yorkers and stuff....but not lil ol' me!!!

[SoCalGirl]

Apparently I pick up other peoples accents very quickly. I can talk to someone for 20 minutes, next thing I know I sound just like them.

As a Navy brat I've lived in Virginia and Maryland as well as my home town (SD Baby!). You can just imagine what I sound like.

I have the full Valley accent w/ ya'lls thrown in here and there. Plus I had a bunch of roommates from North Cali. So "hella" drops into my vocab just as often.

[Miami1839]

I'm a Marine Brat My moms side is from Maryland/Virginia and my Dads side is from Northern Calif. I definitely notice the bay area accents when I go out to visit my family. My grandfather is from Sac but my uncle/aunt are from Monterey. Theres definitely an inflection there and its kind of cool. I dont think I have an accent. I've heard my voice is a bit mellow. If I do its pretty slight but I have lived in Virginia for the past 19 years. 7 years in Okinawa, Japan before that. When I was an active most of my bros considered my home town here hickville but then I think people down by Virginia Tech/Blacksburg have more of a drawl. Even more so when you head into the dixie states. I have to admit I have a week spot for the southern belles that have that drawl. At school I noticed more of an accent from those in the Maryland area around Baltimore or up in New England. Like Bahston.

[juniorgrrl]

This is a great topic.

I'm from just outside of New Orleans, and I don't have the typical "N'awlin's" accent, that sounds Brooklyn-ish. But I don't have the typical southern drawl either. Although, I do say ya'll a lot. Its just built-in

Its funny, because when I'm up in Baton Rouge, it seems like so many people have country-sounding drawls (Baton Rouge is pretty much a country town, despite it being our capital).

[KillarneyRose]

Originally posted by Wine&Blue:
I must admit, I have taken advantage of my accent in places outside the south. It's funny what you can get away with if you put a good "Y'all" in a sentence.

I had to laugh at this because it's so true! My cousin who grew up in South Carolina was visiting and when we went out for dinner she ordered a slice of pe-CAN pa (pecan pie to us Marylanders) and the waiter thought she was so adorable that he had the restaurant comp our desserts!

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[SoCalGirl]

Originally posted by KillarneyRose:
I had to laugh at this because it's so true! My cousin who grew up in South Carolina was visiting and when we went out for dinner she ordered a slice of pe-CAN pa (pecan pie to us Marylanders) and the waiter thought she was so adorable that he had the restaurant comp our desserts!

When I lived in Virginia the opposite happened!

I ordered a slice of pecan pie. The waitress looked at me like I was a martian until I pronounced it p-can! Then her eyes lit up like "Well, why didn't you say so!"

[HeidiHo]

• Okay, as a northerner, I have to mention the flip-side of yall: "you guys". It doesn't matter if I'm talking to men, women or children, I say "you guys". In Jr High I had a friend from Atlanta who made fun of me all the time for saying "you guys"
• On to more local lingo- Cincinnatians say "please?" rather than "excuse me?" or "what did you say?". Lore says that that stems from our German heritage, and the Germans use the word "bitte" literaly "please".
• If you wanted a coke or pepsi to drink would you ask for a _________?
  (A) soda pop
  (B) cola
  (C) pop
  (D) soda
  If you answered (C) pop, you must live near me! People not from the area think I'm a loon when I ask for a pop.

Fun topic!
Heidi

[This message has been edited by HeidiHo (edited June 16, 2001).]

[This message has been edited by HeidiHo (edited June 16, 2001).]

[Hootie]

I'm laughing because my boyfriend, who just recently moved from Cali, has an accent. It's a slight one though, but very cute.
He seems to think that I have an accent though. He especially makes fun of me when I ask him if he wants a pop. First he says it's not pop, it's soda. Second, he seems to think that I say pap instead of pop. Now I KNOW that I don't say pap, because that's kinda like a Brooklin accent and I'm from Nebraska...LOL.
Oh well.

[SigTauJake]

HeidiHo...

Pop, what else would you call it? Actually, even though I am from outside of Pittsburgh, I say soda, because I lived in Ocean City, MD for a summer and I got so harassed for saying pop that I started to say soda.

Here are some more. I say "younz" which is just terrible English, but I think it sounds so much better than "you guys" My little often says "yous guys" which just sounds so hickish, I can't help but laugh at him.

Another Pittsburgh word, and the lingo and accent of Pittsburgh are actually called Pittsburghese, is slippy. Most people say it is slippery, but we all say "slippy". We have tons of words that no one else says, and we destroy all words in the English language when we say them, but like everyone else we don't think we have an accent.

[Siobhan]

Originally posted by HeidiHo:

• Okay, as a northerner, I have to mention the flip-side of yall: "you guys". It doesn't matter if I'm talking to men, women or children, I say "you guys". In Jr High I had a friend from Atlanta who made fun of me all the time for saying "you guys"
• On to more local lingo- Cincinnatians say "please?" rather than "excuse me?" or "what did you say?". Lore says that that stems from our German heritage, and the Germans use the word "bitte" literaly "please".
• If you wanted a coke or pepsi to drink would you ask for a _________?
  (A) soda pop
  (B) cola
  (C) pop
  (D) soda
  If you answered (C) pop, you must live near me! People not from the area think I'm a loon when I ask for a pop.

Fun topic!
Heidi

[This message has been edited by HeidiHo (edited June 16, 2001).]

[This message has been edited by HeidiHo (edited June 16, 2001).]

While I can't speak for all 30 million of us, Canadians tend to ask for pop not soda.

[CRMSNTiDEGRL717]

quote:

Originally posted by HeidiHo:


Okay, as a northerner, I have to mention the flip-side of yall: "you guys". It
doesn't matter if I'm talking to men, women or children, I say "you guys". In Jr
High I had a friend from Atlanta who made fun of me all the time for saying "you
guys"
On to more local lingo- Cincinnatians say "please?" rather than "excuse me?" or
"what did you say?". Lore says that that stems from our German heritage, and the
Germans use the word "bitte" literaly "please".
If you wanted a coke or pepsi to drink would you ask for a _________?
(A) soda pop
(B) cola
(C) pop
(D) soda
If you answered (C) pop, you must live near me! People not from the area think
I'm a loon when I ask for a pop.


Fun topic!
Heidi
Actually, I call it none of the above. We (I) and most around me, simply call it a "coke".

[KillarneyRose]

Originally posted by SigTauJake:
HeidiHo...

Pop, what else would you call it? Actually, even though I am from outside of Pittsburgh, I say soda, because I lived in Ocean City, MD for a summer and I got so harassed for saying pop that I started to say soda.

Here are some more. I say "younz" which is just terrible English, but I think it sounds so much better than "you guys" My little often says "yous guys" which just sounds so hickish, I can't help but laugh at him.

Another Pittsburgh word, and the lingo and accent of Pittsburgh are actually called Pittsburghese, is slippy. Most people say it is slippery, but we all say "slippy". We have tons of words that no one else says, and we destroy all words in the English language when we say them, but like everyone else we don't think we have an accent.

Hey Jake! Younze guys goin dahntahn to watch the Stillers game? More examples of Pittsburgeese include "gumband" instead of rubber band and "worsh" as in "I have to worsh the clothes"

I, too, have been weaned from saying "pop", mostly because of the abuse I've had to endure when trying to order pop when I lived in NYC. It feels good, though, to order pop when I'm back in Pittsburgh visiting my folks and the waitress knows what I'm talking about. Kinda like being in a secret club or something! haha


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@~Tracy~@

By the light of the lamp, by the light of the lamp, by the bright shiny light, by the light of the lamp...if you are a DeeZee, you're the best that you can be, by the bright shiny light of the lamp!

[gammazetagrl]

I grew up in the Philippines--I don't have the typical Asian accent because we spoke English in school over there, but I say certain words in a "funny" way--I never even realized it until my ex told me!for example i would say "cookie" "cooooky" or "frosty" "frowstee"... My accent sounds like a combination british and spanish (real weird).

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