Posted on 03/19/2006 6:29:28 AM PST by thousand dollar hamburger
Baltimore=Ballimer
Maryland=Merlen
:)
Heh,he! Kickin' 'em to da curb, eh?
Strange, but it bugs me that the old family neighborhood there in Lurgan has gotten so seedy. The place was a retreat from the religious oppresion of The Crown, 300 years ago. Glad my family 'came over' when they did.
Wouldn't it be weird to find out that some of those Ulster stone throwers' ancestors sat at Quaker meetings with my "great-great-greats" in the early 1700's, right there in Lurgan? Strange to think about how people who once may have had so much in common could have diverged; one group building a heritage of faith and the other a heritage of bloodshed and militance.
My first day at the office after my Kenya trip my boos looked at me and said, "Why do you sound like Margaret Thatcher?"
I have mostly shaken it again but accents learned young are very easy to slip back into.
The Loyalist and 'Republican' terrorist groups have effectively turn NI into a ghetto!!
My results:
"25% Dixie. You are a Yankee Doodle Dandy."
Well, most of my ping list turn up to give me a hand!!
I wonder how many of them are agent provocateurs, I wonder?
I think he definitely was one - he went beyond simply blaming the British, and actually mouthed support for Sinn Fein/IRA. I think a lot of the others others are simply misinformed fools!
LOL!
Hey, Teddy!
How are you feeling, now?
I'm apparently a 'West Brit'!! ;)
I frequently get teased for my pronounciation of the word "Wisconsin" by those not from northern Illinois (in fact, I was teased about it last night). A few words that I say have a bit of a Chicago accent in it - probably a northern Illinois thing.
Wis-caan-sin.
I'm an Illinoisan. Whaddya expect? ;-)
I have a knack for picking up on accents when I converse with people. If I talk with an Aussie for five minutes, I can walk away and fool the next guy into thinking that I'm an Aussie, too. It's just something I can do, and, in fact, it's so automatic that I often don't notice that I'm doing it. My wife will tell me, "Stop that; they're gonna think you're mocking them and be offended." I ask, "Huh? Stop what?"
Well, I went to a resort in Mexico about 20 years ago and talked with people from all over the U.S. and a couple of foreign countries; all with varying accents. After a dozen conversations with a dozen different accents, I realized that I didn't know how to talk like myself, anymore.
...but I'm not the only one...
A centipede was happy quite,
Until a frog in fun
Said, "Pray, which leg comes after which?"
This raised her mind to such a pitch,
She lay distracted in the ditch,
Considering how to run.
LOL!
My son was born at Gt. Lakes, and we also lived in SD and MO, so for a while, I got pretty good at telling what part of the country a person was from. I'm not good at it any more. Though I DO have a tendency to say, Wi-SCAN-son, at times...;o]
I think that would be me...
I've hear it pronounced that way; mostly by folks from around the Great Lakes region. MY kin over in N. St. Paul say it that way. They also say "ba-tries" not "batter-ies".
My paternal great-great-grandfather lived in Pana, Illinois in the late 1800's. It's about 40mi SE of Springfield. I need to do some 'roots' research out there sometime.
I know where Pana is. :-)
33% dixie.
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