Do ya'll talk funny?

[PMA]

I liked it when Yankees use to ask for directions and we say over yonder way. Or you can't there from here.

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[DFB]

Whoooaaa....cant get there from here is definitely a Maine thang!

Some parts of Vermont too!

 

[Dr_Zinj]

This thread has got me thinking, How the teachers in our schools ( K-,1st, 2nd grades ) if actually teach the correct pronunciations of syllables and words? I mean if across our Nation we all speak differently, and pronounce words differently, we must have been taught to say them in this way, Right!,

English teachers are supposed to be taught (and use!) Standard English pronunciation. Said standards can be found in pronunciation guides in the front of most dictionaries. Unfortunately, too many elementary school teachers should have been failed for either not taking the course, or not completing it satisfactorily, or worse, the idiot professors passed them. My kids had one teacher when we were stationed in DC that it was all I could do to not grab her and slam her up against the walls she was so bad. We literally had to spend hours at home undoing the damage.

 

[vabiker23518]

Reminds me when I first took my 8 yo son (now 25!) to the hunt club. After sitting inside for awhile, we went outside to line up....he said to me..."Dad, those men don't speak right"! I just about died; today, he sounds just like them...when he wants to!

 

[Tig]

Language in North America is slowly getting homogenized, thanks to television.
Up here it's a cultural issue. There's no good reason to discard what makes a region unique.
Foe example, the area where I live has been known it's pickerel fishing for hundreds of years. Yet now we have a big walleye derby so that people can relate to terminology from south of the border.

 

[YesDeere]

I lived in Georgia while going to school. Definetly got some funny looks with my maryland accent. Thought I was gonna have to fight when asking for a soda. It's a coke. Even if it ain't a coke. "You want a coke?, yep Mountain Dew please"

Md accent is pretty funny. Long drawn out O's. water is wooder. Oil and foil are one syllable. And don't even begin to try and figure out Balmer Hun.

 

[Express]

I'm originally from New York now live in Ct. I can hide my accent sometimes but it's difficult. I travel a lot and people always can spot it.

 

[DeereMann]

Up here in the Siberia of the Americas, there is a little township with the name of Nowthen. Honest to God! The Scandahoovians (see: Fargo) actually do speak like this, though not as exaggerated anymore - and some of 'em end their sentences with "nowthen"......

"well, watcha gonna do dere, nowthen?" lore has it a local did this so much they named the township after his frequent usage of the term.

As a reminder, I am not from here - I am from way east (Wisconsin!) where everyone speaks normally. :toiletpaper:

 

[jerrybob]

You folks eat dinner or supper???

 

[DeereMann]

Supper in Scandahoovia (Minnesota, North Dakota, etc.), dinner in God's country (Wisconsin).
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