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Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 05:35 PM
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Does your state have different accents in different parts of it?
Of course, NYC'ers have different accents in the city itself!

But I mean like here, where there is a distinct difference between LA and SF accents.
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Critters2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 05:37 PM
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1. Absolutely.
Illinois is so long from north to south that you get everything from that Chicago "Da Bearz" thing to a really deep south kind of accent in places like Cairo. Those of us in between have no accent of course! :)
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ChoralScholar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 05:39 PM
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2. The geographical division of the state (Arkansas)
seems to harbor different dialects. The southern and eastern parts of the state seem to have the more distinctive, slower, southern drawl than the mountainous west and northwest parts of the state.
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Connonym Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 05:41 PM
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3. WI has lots of different accents
I, however, have a totally sexy accent free standard-issue Midwestern voice.
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KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 05:43 PM
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5. where is the bubbler?
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Connonym Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 05:46 PM
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8. I have manged to NEVER, EVER use that expression except in irony
I'm not a WI native when I moved here at 13, being a typical know-it-all teen, I wanted to bitch slap people for not knowing what a farkin' drinking fountain was!
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KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 05:49 PM
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9. Hey, my mom was born and raised in WI and I find "bubbler" charming.
:hi:
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Jeff In Milwaukee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 07:23 PM
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14. I love the Wisconsin accent...
I moved here two years ago and I'm always tickled when I talk to an older person (I think TV tends to homogenize are speaking voices) with a thick "Ya Hey" accent.
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Jeff In Milwaukee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 07:25 PM
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15. Not my state anymore, but West Virginia...
when I taught there at WVU, I could tell the kids who were from the north (and influenced by Pittsburgh) because they said "y'uns" and the kids who were from the southern part of the state, who would use "y'all."

As I said in another post on this thread, I think the influence of television is slowing taking away those subtle regional accents.
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KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 05:43 PM
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4. What is the SF accent like?
I am in OC and we have a mish mash of accents ranging from midwestern, to asian immigrant, to surfer, etc.
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Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 06:00 PM
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11. SF not so much, but North Bay has a distinct accent
Really hard to put a finger on it, since it's very very subtle. I just know it when I hear it. You also hear it in Vacaville, and you used to hear it in East Bay.
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Tektonik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 07:54 PM
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29. Hella
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TZ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 05:45 PM
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6. Yep. Baltimore has a distinct accent...
MUCH different from the rest of Maryland..(some Western Marylanders have a bit of an accent as well).
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ThomCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 05:46 PM
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7. Absolutely.
A Long Island accent is very different from a Buffalo accent. Central NYS has a separate accent.

And of course, as you mentioned, NYC has at least two distinct accents. (even if you are only considering native english speakers)
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LSdemocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 05:55 PM
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10. Here in Missouri, we can't even agree on how to pronounce the state name
So yes, there are plenty of different accents based on both geography, age, and other factors.
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I Have A Dream Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 06:01 PM
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12. Oh, yes! Very different accents in Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, and Central PA.
:)
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mtnester Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 06:04 PM
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13. Yes...even in Ohio..
Central Ohio has the warsh (wash), crick (creek), tur (tour) accent with a lot of dropping of the letter L...but up near Cleveland (at about Akron) that baby NY accent kicks in.

There is a portion of southern Ohio dewp into Appalachia that picks up a soft WVA/TN/KY/VA accent...at about Nelsonville or the Flats and south/southeast from there.
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TZ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 07:28 PM
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19. that would explain my odd ball dialect then...
born in Cinci with parents from Cleveland and now I live in Maryland....(there is an awful lot of that "Warsh" type speak in Northern and Western Maryland):D
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unpossibles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-03-07 06:30 AM
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37. Yep, Ohio is a microcosm of the United States in that way
the t'ain't of America: t'ain't the east, t'ain't the west....

Down here near Cincinnati, wash becomes "worsh," chimney somehow becomes "chimbley," and a lot of people vote for complete morons. Must be something in the water....
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GOPisEvil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 07:25 PM
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16. Of course.
East Texans sound different than West Texans who sound different than South Texans...and so on.
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1gobluedem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 07:26 PM
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17. Yes, Yoopers sound very different from trolls
The Yooper accent is half Canadian/half sort of Minnesotan.

People from the Lower Peninsula are called trolls because we live below the bridge.
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Breeze54 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 07:26 PM
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18. Yes! The Kennedy accent is from Cambridge, MA but if
you go to 'southie' (South Boston) or Chelsea or west of Boston, all the accents are different, imho.
When I lived in Nevada, people there said I sounded like a Kennedy but no one in MA says that! ;)
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sniffa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 07:41 PM
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27. i hate to burst your bubbLe but
as a born and raised cantabrigian (3rd generation) no one in cambridge has a kennedy accent.

we are distinct, but it's cLoser to southie than hyannis.
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Breeze54 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 08:40 PM
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32. Maybe now but Cambridge and Brookline have always had a distinct
Edited on Tue Oct-02-07 08:44 PM by Breeze54
"Kennedy' accent. His family used to live there as did mine!

In fact, my Dad's family lived three doors down from the Kennedy's.

My grandma was friend's with Rose and my Dad used to babysit JFK, on occasion!

P.S. I don't have a 'bubble'.
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Shakespeare Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 07:28 PM
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20. Texas sure does.
The difference between a Houston/Beaumont accent, a deep east Texas accent and a west Texas drawl are markedly different.
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idgiehkt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 07:30 PM
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21. yep
I have more of a hill accent and sometimes my relatives in eastern NC are hard for me to understand.
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Kali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 07:32 PM
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22. yep and seasonal as well
we have the rural dialect (see "yep" in subject line), we have some big Indian Reservations so you get that accent, urban educated speech, Mexican Spanish accents and various other nationalities - although they aren't location-specific, and of course in the warmer parts of the state you hear a lot of Minnesotan in the winter.:rofl:
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mainegreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 07:33 PM
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23. Ayuh.
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Breeze54 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 07:39 PM
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25. What a cute baby! Ah yup!
:P
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LeftyMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 07:38 PM
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24. I have an inland Northern California accent, but less than XemaSab does.
Easy way to distinguish northern and southern Californians is by names of freeways. Northern Californians say "I-5" southern Californians call the same road "the five" which is clearly evil and wrong.
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 08:57 PM
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33. I was once told
"You have the WORST Bay Area accent I have ever heard." :eyes:
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bicentennial_baby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 07:41 PM
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26. I'm from Western MA...I have no accent...
Even though people from Pittsburgh say differently. No, we speak proper English :D
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Tuesday Afternoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 07:47 PM
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28. Yes. n/t
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tekisui Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 07:55 PM
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30. In NC, the farther West you go, the more mountains,
the more drawn out until you can't understand a word.
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pitohui Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 08:34 PM
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31. yes but you wouldn't know it from the media
it really gets my goat when a cajun for example is portrayed as someone born and bred in the french quarter or the garden district, as they don't sound anything alike

and no one ever portrays the yats correctly unless they are from the region
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yellowdogintexas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-03-07 06:06 AM
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34. Kentucky has 3..the metro Louisville is less southern, the eastern
and Applachian region is very nasal and mountainy (think authentic Bluegrass singers) and the southcentral, and west to the river junctions is much more southern, rounder sounding ..my little area was settled by people from Virginia way back when, and that influence shows up in the accent.


Tennessee...definitely different starting about 100 miles east of Nashville.
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tjwmason Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-03-07 06:23 AM
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35. To a decreasing extent.
The north of the county (we don't have states over here, of course) is more rural and still has a touch of the old accent (away from the unmitigated ghastliness which is Milton Keynes) it also still has more of a feel of the midlands, the southern part is too much entwined with the whole London-South East spread and the just plain ugly Estuary English.
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Callalily Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-03-07 06:27 AM
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36. Ya abetcha! n/t
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RebelOne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-03-07 07:17 AM
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38. I was born in Philadelphia, but grew up in Miami,FL.
But I still have a distinct Philadelphia accent.
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zanne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-03-07 07:24 AM
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39. I live in southern NH....
In Manchester. I have a basic, featureless American accent. (I learned English from watching TV as a young child, so I sound a little like a talking head). My husband, who grew up in a small town about nine miles away, sounds like a real Yankee. For example, I say "horse"--he says "hoss". It's the weirdest thing.
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raccoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-03-07 11:08 AM
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40. SC Lowcountry accent is significantly different from an Upstate accent.

But I don't hear the Upstate accent much any more, except from older people.
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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-03-07 11:15 AM
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41. Yeah... but I can't tell which is from where...
I think most Texans can identify certain dialects... east texan vs. west, for instance. It all just sounds Texan to me, though.

:shrug:
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CottonBear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-03-07 11:36 AM
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42. Georgia definitely does!
For example:

Kim Basinger has an Athens, GA accent.

Paula Deen has a lowcountry - coastal Savannah accent.

Jimmy Carter has a Southwest Georgia accent.

Zell Miller has a Georgia Mountains accent.

Trisha Yearwood has a middle Georgia accent.
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Strawman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-03-07 10:20 PM
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43. Say ya to da UP, eh?
Edited on Wed Oct-03-07 10:20 PM by Strawman
We sure do.
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