Do ya'll talk funny?

[creekbend]

One only has to look at the different Bouroughs of New York City. People in the Bronx talk different from those in Long Island.

 

[J F]

Yep. It's funny, but my ears/brain prefer a "southern drawl" over a heavy NY (or Boston) accent.

 

[DFB]

Man, I hope I'm not picking up the Scandahoovian accent here in Minnesota (every seen the move "Fargo"? )

No but I did see "New In Town" :laughing:

 

[Gunny]

I did a tour up north several years ago and it used to crack up everyone when I said something with "mom n em", as in how's your mom n em? That's a pretty common question down here when you meet someone you haven't seen for awhile, but up north, they'd never heard anything like it.

 

[bigtiller]

When my uncle was discharged from the army in '53 he met a girl in the hills of Kentucky, married her and moved to D.C. It took her a few years to loose her deep hillbilly accent. It seamed to this 6 year old kid, the hardest word for her to give up was "gnaw" ---meaning "no".

 

[compact]

Maine has 4 distinct accent that I can easily identify - Portland, central, down-east coastal, and upper aroostock. Vermont is distinctly different. I speak pretty much accent free but my kids laugh at family reunions or when I'm on the phone with family as a strong central / coastal Maine dielect surfaces - I'm told.

 

[J F]

I think that probably happens a lot compact, we all change a bit depending on the circumstances.

 

[brin]

I did a tour up north several years ago and it used to crack up everyone when I said something with "mom n em", as in how's your mom n em? That's a pretty common question down here when you meet someone you haven't seen for awhile, but up north, they'd never heard anything like it.

Ya'l mean like...How's ya mom & nem ? Ya'll come see us...ya here....LOL

 

[J F]

:laughing: "You guys" instead of "y'all" always gives me away.

 

[Bird]

Yep, it's definitely different accents in different parts of the county. I have a sister who moved to California for several years, came back with such an accent folks could hardly believe it. And I used to know two New York State Troopers; one had no noticeable accent (to a Texan) while the other had a really strong accent (a Brooklyn, accent I was told). He couldn't say "Bird"; called me Boid.:laughing: And then besides the accent, folks in different areas use different words. A friend in Louisiana said he liked to go out in his bateau and fish for sac-a-lait. It wasn't too long until I learned that was going crappie fishing in a jon boat.:laughing: And then for the school year of 1971-72 at Northwestern University, we were friends with two couples from New Jersey. One of the guys had a noticeable accent while the other did not. But our 3 and 6 year old daughters picked up some Yankee terms, such as "youse guys" (all of them female) and "outen the lights" as the parents hollered at the kids to turn out the lights to go to bed.:laughing: Most, but not all, of the time, we can figure out what each other are talking about.:laughing: