Not so much anymore, whenever outside the Northeast I was regularly asked to say, “pahk the cah in hahvaad yahd.”
You need to have a vacation in North Maine where they don’t get many outside visitors. You might have a time understanding some of them.
Words that end in “er” are pronounced “ah.” Mainer = Mainah. Car = Cah. Mother and Father = Muthah and Fathah. Water = Watah. You get the drift.
Conversely, words that end in “a” are sometimes, but not always, pronounced “er.” California becomes Californier. Idea becomes idear. Yoga becomes Yoger.
Drop the “g” in “ing.” Stopping and starting = stoppin’ and startin’, or more correctly, stoppin’ and stahtin’.
Broaden a and e sounds. Calf becomes cahf. Bath becomes bahth. Can’t becomes cahn’t.
Drag out some one-syllable words into two syllables. There becomes they-uh. Here becomes hee-ah. As in, “You can’t get theyuh from heeyuh.”
Whatever anyone says, I LOVE the northeastern accent! :D
Y’all!
I just went back and grabed your Friday Yippee! I will send it to you next Friday! And you can send it back. Then I can send it back to you, etc.etc.etc.etc.