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Posted on 08/07/2007 7:52:15 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!
Sing hey! for the bath at close of day
That washes the weary mud away!
A loon is he that will not sing:
O! Water Hot is anoble thing!
O! Sweet is the sound of falling rain.
and the brook that leaps from hill to plain;
but better than rain or rippling streams
is Water Hot that smokes and steams.
O! Water cold we may pour at need
down a thirsty throat and be glad indeed;
but better is Beer, if drink we lack,
and Water Hot poured down the back.
O! Water is fair that leaps on high
in a fountain white beneath the sky;
but never did fountain sound so sweet
as splashing Hot Water with my feet!
Yep — exactly!
What scares me, as a Red Sox Nation widdow, is that “Boston” was my #3. Worrisome indeed.
They’re growin’ on ya...
Most people I meet for the first time wouldn’t guess I’m from Southwest Virginia. I’ll admit that at times, I lay the southern on a bit thick, just for effect.
But, being a speech major, people usually peg me as being from somewhere in the midwest.
The version that bugs me is Waarsh. Gah! there is no R anywhere near there!!!
How the sam hill did I end up in philly? Guess there are two of us.
Pronunciation is an interesting way of taking the quiz, the second one was midwest, I’ll buy that one.
There must have been one question that tilted midwest to philadelphia.
Yah...but it’s common in a lot of areas. So is “maysure” for measure. And “draws” for drawers (meaning in a bureau, of course...)
My boss is one who rhymes “bag” with “vague”. And the biggest thing I notice about the Northwestern accent is that “sell” and “sale” are pretty much the same word. At least as my sister-in-law says them.
Same thing happened in the Cleveland area, near where I used to live. GRRR corporate chain stores.
One of my co-workers always says “Warshington”.
I will lay on extra souther when I an trying to establish my redneck cred or deny really being ‘from Iowa’. Now that I have lived here just days shy of 7 years I have to admit I really am ‘from Iowa’ now :P
Is it? I have very rarely heard ‘warsh’ and it has been years. I forget where the the last guy I heard say it was from. Not from around these part. Er, ‘those parts’ I guess since I was not here at the time.
I remember from Kevin Phillip's The Emerging Republican Majority that the area of the inland north was settled primarily from New England. (Just as the area to the south of there, mid-America, was settled from the mid-atlantic states). So you'd expect a New England accent connection to his accent.
Seems like a lot of the folks from my grandmother’s area (Indiana) say “warsh”, as do some of the older folks here.
If it’s true of southern Indiana, I imagine it’s true in other parts around that region...maybe Tennessee and Kentucky?
You are lucky I was not badly affected by my Pittsburgh heritage then if you hate “warsh”. Actually in Pittsburgh it’s almost “worsh”. They also confuse “let” and “lay” and say “yinz” and call rubber bands “gum bands” and - ok, let’s not start with that.
But if I start wondering if it’s slippy out when the roads are wet and it gets down to freezing, you’ll know why.
There was an American English show on PBS the other day, which says that the older accent from the Ohio Valley area is descended from the ScotsIrish ‘Appalachian’ regional accent spoken by frontiersmen like Daniel Boone. It is rapidly disappearing into other accents.
Dang...I would have liked to have seen that. The evolution of accents and pronunciation and the language in general is fascinating.
I have this, and it's really interesting, though I've not had as much time as I'd like to go through it, and it covers a much broader scope of history. As I said, it's a fascinating subject.
It was part of a series ‘Do You Speak American?’, which is sort of an overall introduction to this subject. It seems to have a drastically PC approach which includes Mexican Spanish as ‘American’.
I watched a six-part BBC show about the history of the English language in England, and the rest of the world. For a language headed for extinction a thousand years ago, it's done quite nicely today. Probably thanks to British and American economic and military military (and now technological) might.
International air travel was tending towards French until they got beat (again) by the Germans. Even an enemy can unintentionally do you a favor.
The odd thing is that regional dialects in England vary wildly, and some cover very tiny geographic areas. Some of them seem unintelligible. And, of course, English is more readily understood in Germany's Lofoten Islands than German is.
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Yet, when sufficiently provoked (or travelling among 'em) I speak Southron.
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