Do you have any idea how comical some Northern accents sound to Southerners?
Nose to horizontal to even acknowledge your question....I would presume....and i don’t personally find them comical....been around too many good folk from the north...just gonna have the haters and elitist as usual.
Well, I do find some of them comical such as people who cannot pronounce the word saw. It comes out sounding like the last syllable of dinosaur. “That’s a nice hand saur you got there.” “Thanks, I saur it on sale at Home Depot so I bought it.” On the other hand I would never go into a Northern state and go around telling them, “You guys sure talk funny” which is what some Yankees do when they come South. If they want to come to my state and tell me to my face that they find my speech amusing then turnabout is fair play. Of course the worst of the Northern accents seem to be disappearing along with much of the old Southern way of speech. I don’t hear, “On da coana o’ toity toid an toid stweet” much any more. I haven’t heard “gnu kyar” lately either. Before I quit the telephone work I used to do I had one assignment calling in the Bronx, wow, that was some experience, they all sounded like an angry Bugs Bunny. People in the Bronx can say, “I love you” in an angrier sounding tone than a drunk redneck in South Carolina could muster to say, “I’m gonna kill yo’ sorry ass.”
My favorite states were Texas, Arkansas and Louisiana and I actually don’t like the fact that regional accents are disappearing. When we all start sounding like midwesterners it will be a sad day to me. At least it would be better than listening to Fran Drescher as “The Nanny” though.