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What Kind of American Accent Do You Have?[FR]

1 posted on 04/04/2012 12:09:37 AM PDT by Theoria
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What American accent do you have?
Your Result: The South
 

That's a Southern accent you've got there. You may love it, you may hate it, you may swear you don't have it, but whatever the case, we can hear it.


2 posted on 04/04/2012 12:58:01 AM PDT by Salamander (You don't know what's going on inside of me. You don't wanna know what's running through my mind.)
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I look at the map and I’m reminded of the bio-chemical warfare map in The Andromeda Strain (the original, not the horrible remake).


3 posted on 04/04/2012 12:58:08 AM PDT by byrony
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Got to read later. For now, I live in CT. The worst part of the dialect here is changing the double t into a grunt. Button becomes bu'in (insert guttural grunt).

Also something become "sun'in". It's like listening to complete illiterates. I correct my sons all the time. They picked up from their peers.

4 posted on 04/04/2012 3:11:44 AM PDT by raybbr (People who still support Obama are either a Marxist or a moron.)
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I have a Midland accent which makes sense cause I grew up and live here.


5 posted on 04/04/2012 3:31:24 AM PDT by Pinkbell (Rick Santorum For President (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N89LGhm-Ztc))
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I've noticed a shift in stress on certain syllables in hyphenated words and two-word phrases. It's pretty early in the morning so I'm not firing on all cylinders. The only one I can remember now is the word "red-light." I've always heard it pronounced with equal stress on each word. Now, I hear young people say things like "Go to the first RED-light and turn left."

Maybe I'm being a bit picky but it really sounds odd to me.

6 posted on 04/04/2012 3:33:43 AM PDT by Oratam
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*bump*


7 posted on 04/04/2012 3:41:30 AM PDT by Yardstick
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Where’s the locus of ebonics, geographically and politically.


8 posted on 04/04/2012 4:19:20 AM PDT by the invisib1e hand
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Very interesting. I have witnessed the city vs. rural dichotomy. I noticed while living in Buffalo that vowels were gradually shifting -- the most jarring to me was pronouncing "vague" to rhyme with "bag."

Living now, 40 miles south of the city in a rural area, there is none of that going on. To the point that people from Buffalo are much more easily identified by their speech than even a decade ago. Fascinating.

And, yes, Buffalonians are overwhelmingly Democrats. Down here registration is about 60-70% Republican.

9 posted on 04/04/2012 6:39:11 AM PDT by BfloGuy (The final outcome of the credit expansion is general impoverishment.)
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The test confuses proper Manhattenite with Inland North. I suppose that both are influenced by English and Dutch and are district from Brooklynese, but no one takes me for a upstate hayseed.


11 posted on 04/13/2012 1:10:03 PM PDT by rmlew ("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers.")
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