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22 Maps That Show How Americans Speak English Totally Differently From Each Other
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Posted on 06/05/2013 3:10:55 PM PDT by SMGFan

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To: Oratam
I never say I am from "Jersey" , I say New Jersey. In NJ we go "down the shore", not down to the shore, Not to the beach.

At some point when we go down the shore we meet the Philadelphia people who call subs a hogie.

101 posted on 06/05/2013 4:53:26 PM PDT by SMGFan (SMGfan is not "Sub Machine Gun" fan)
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To: SMGFan
I cannot see how "Mary, merry and marry" can be pronounced the same. I'm from Jersey. :)

LOL -- same in Philly.

Mary = MEHry.
Merry = MUHry.
Marry = MAHwree.

102 posted on 06/05/2013 4:55:02 PM PDT by Albion Wilde ("There can be no dialogue with the prince of this world." -- Francis)
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To: OldNewYork
There was no ‘yous’ option.

I know, right? No Philly "yiz" ("Where yiz goin'?"), and no Central PA "you'ns" (yuns).

103 posted on 06/05/2013 4:57:18 PM PDT by Albion Wilde ("There can be no dialogue with the prince of this world." -- Francis)
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To: x

In Fawmingten May-en, I understand a version of older English is spoken,

In the dor-yahd.

Jeezily!


104 posted on 06/05/2013 4:57:53 PM PDT by Chickensoup (200 million unarmed " people killed in the 20th century by Leftist Totalitarian Fascists)
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To: fwdude

ping to 102


105 posted on 06/05/2013 4:58:56 PM PDT by Albion Wilde ("There can be no dialogue with the prince of this world." -- Francis)
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To: Parley Baer
Here in SoCal I use a lot of those terms back and forth such as pee-khan and pee-can. Same with soda, pop, Coke or soda-pop. Same with some of the others. I guess it is just how I feel that day.

An awful lot of people moved to California from the rest of the country after WWII. I'm guessing they brought their own regional variants with them so there'd be more leeway there than in other parts of the US.

106 posted on 06/05/2013 4:59:47 PM PDT by x
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To: PUGACHEV
That’s because you’re not from Southern Maryland, pronounced Shuthin Merlin.

Prove it! Write how to say "shrimp"!

107 posted on 06/05/2013 5:01:50 PM PDT by Albion Wilde ("There can be no dialogue with the prince of this world." -- Francis)
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To: katana

These are towns in both states;

Andover, Ansonia, Avon, Bethel, Bristol, Brooklyn, Canton, Clinton, Columbia, Danbury, Fairfield, Franklin, Hamden, Hebron, Kent, Lebanon, Lisbon, Madison, Manchester, Mansfield, Middlefield, Middletown, Monroe, Montville, New Haven, New London, Norwalk, Norwich, Orange, Oxford, Redding, Salem, Thompson, Union, Washington, Windham,


108 posted on 06/05/2013 5:02:44 PM PDT by muir_redwoods (Don't fire until you see the blue of their helmets)
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To: SMGFan

Listen to people say onion. A lot pronounce it with an imaginary G in it. I don’t think that has anything to do with what region you’re from though.


109 posted on 06/05/2013 5:05:02 PM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (President Obma; The Slumlord of the Rentseekers)
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To: goldfinch
I have noticed that a lot of people from back east have an ‘idear’ as opposed to an idea.

That's a holdover from early English settlers. Even today, Brits who speak the Queen's English put an "r" or "hr" at the end of a word ending with "a", such as "PAStahr" (Italian noodles).

110 posted on 06/05/2013 5:06:08 PM PDT by Albion Wilde ("There can be no dialogue with the prince of this world." -- Francis)
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To: raybbr

And does the rest of the country really call sneakers “tennis shoes”?

We, where I grew up in Chicago, always called them “gym shoes”.

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I have a BIL from Western PA, who used to say “gum shoes” until we teased him out of it.

My NJ-born husband still sometimes says “elastic band” for what I, a native MDer call a “rubber band”.


111 posted on 06/05/2013 5:06:10 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Restore us, O God of hosts; let your face shine, that we may be saved! -Ps80)
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To: Aliska
I assume by "British accent" you mean English accent. The Scots and Welsh are also British, but they speak with Scottish and Welsh accents (actually, what the Welsh have is a "lilt"). But for some reason the English speak with a "British" accent.

I haven't heard or read "English accent" in I don't know how long. English identity has been completely subsumed into Britishness in a way the others have not.

My apologies if I have misunderstood you.

112 posted on 06/05/2013 5:06:44 PM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Ki-hagoy vehamamlakhah 'asher lo'-ya`avdukh yove'du; vehagoyim charov yecheravu!)
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To: Bigg Red

“My NJ-born husband still sometimes says “elastic band” for what I, a native MDer call a “rubber band”.”

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MA here. We just call them “elastics”.

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113 posted on 06/05/2013 5:08:29 PM PDT by Mears
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To: katana
Sounds like nickname for a laxative.

Italy has a subtle one. An "innuendo."

114 posted on 06/05/2013 5:08:36 PM PDT by Albion Wilde ("There can be no dialogue with the prince of this world." -- Francis)
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To: Fresh Wind
Up here round Flelfia, we call it Baldeemore.

I've actually heard a Flefian refer to Merlin as "down Delwear."

115 posted on 06/05/2013 5:11:04 PM PDT by Albion Wilde ("There can be no dialogue with the prince of this world." -- Francis)
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To: SMGFan

I remember some guy on WHAT’S MY LINE who did the Henry Higgens thing for the USA back in the early 1960s.


116 posted on 06/05/2013 5:11:14 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Sometimes you need 7+ more ammo. LOTS MORE.)
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To: SMGFan

I still maintain that the most beautiful American accent of all is the old-time, now extinct, New England Yankee accent as epitomized by Calvin Coolidge, Farmer Smurf, and Titus Moody. I’m not talking about urban Boston or Harvard brahmin here.


117 posted on 06/05/2013 5:12:22 PM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Ki-hagoy vehamamlakhah 'asher lo'-ya`avdukh yove'du; vehagoyim charov yecheravu!)
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To: SMGFan

http://www.aei-ideas.org/2011/07/which-american-accent-do-you-have/

Take a 17-question quiz here and find out.

http://www.youthink.com/quiz.cfm?action=go_detail&sub_action=take&obj_id=9827


118 posted on 06/05/2013 5:12:41 PM PDT by petercooper
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To: Mears
MA here. We just call them “elastics”.

And you pronounce them "ee-lah-stics."

119 posted on 06/05/2013 5:14:01 PM PDT by Oratam
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To: OldNewYork
"There was no ‘yous’ option.

And I’m impressed with those who say ‘you all’ instead of ‘y’all’. I never knew anyone did."

In the aftermath of the Boston bombings, I heard a local Boston reporter - at a press conference - use "yous." I'm from the north, and I've started using "you all" in preference to "you guys," which I can't stand. I will NOT call women "guys."
120 posted on 06/05/2013 5:16:44 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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