Posted on 06/05/2013 3:10:55 PM PDT by SMGFan
Everyone knows that Americans don't exactly agree on pronunciations. Regional accents are a major part of what makes American English so interesting as a dialect. Joshua Katz, a Ph. D student in statistics at North Carolina State University, just published a group of awesome visualizations of Professor Bert Voux's linguistic survey that looked at how Americans pronounce words. (via) detsl on /r/Linguistics His results were first published on Abstract, the N.C. State research blog.
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The guys I met in New Jersey pronounced "soda" as "so-dee".
You may be confusing the "drawl" with the "twang." I don't have the former, but I most assuredly have the latter.
You don't really hit the drawl till you're halfway down Mississippi, Alabama, or Georgia. The northern halves of those states have the same twang as their neighbors to the north.
I believe Texans also speak with the twang rather than the drawl. Has to do with the origin of most Texas settlers.
Lol!
A teenage Texan I know went to a retreat in Rome where there were participants from all over the world.
Many of them spoke variations of British English and all of the U.S. kids could talk with them, except some of the Texans, because the foreigners ;-) couldn’t understand their Tx accent.
This teenager started speaking with a British accent and then they could understand him! Lol!
I do. Same with "cot" and "caught."
Correction: that's chimBley.
I would disagree. In Philadelphia, for instance, a skilled listener can tell which neighborhood of the City you are from, and your probable ethnicity and religion. Baltimore, the same. DC is harder, because it has so many carpetbaggers and frequent turnover from the political class. And Pittsburgh is west of the influential German-based Amish area, so it has a distinct difference from Philadelphia, which has English/Swedish early influences, followed by Irish, Polish, African-Americans and Italian.
Also interesting to me, who has lived in Philly, Balmer and DC, are discernable differences in African-American speech patterns in those three areas.
In Philly, a ferry is a "FUHry"; rhymes with "Murray."
Yes Northeastern, “This could either mean an r-less NYC or Providence accent or one from Jersey which doesn’t sound the same. Just because you got this result doesn’t mean you don`t pronounce R’s.(People in Jersey don`t call their state “Joisey” in real life)”
And Rod Stewart does this in his songs.
"Leave Virginia-er alone"
As does Elton John "It'll take you a couple of vodker-and tonics...to get you on your feet again"
Obviously they were teased, because on the live version, Elton sings "VODKA and tonics" emphasizing the word.
No, no,it’s Balmore and its residents, of course, are Balmorons.
Not sure about Ben Franklin, but Southern Partisan magazine made a case that George Washington spoke with a Southern drawl, y'all.
Yo! Howyidoonawri?
In the South, that's "Imaw".
I suppository that was meant to be funny.
Mhepya?
Here in Ma., we don’t go to Cape Cod. We go to the Cape, or down to the Cape.
You nearly caused a keyboard accident. I had no idea that it was possible to snort home-made lasagna! “Pee-can”, indeed.
In my corner of Florida, I, an ex-Minnesota carpetbagger, hear “puh-cahn” when my neighbors talk about the nut crop.
Philly area here. Lived briefly in Jersey. Also spend lots of time down the shore. Never heard anyone from NJ say so-dee.
Here's some Philadelphia speak - "Those guys down the Ack-a-me got a bad att-ee-tude!"
I'm certain he had the same accent as his contemporary fellow-Virginians, but isn't Virginia too far north to have a drawl spoken there?
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