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To: Jedi Master Pikachu
Not a fan of the southern English accent. The Geordies have a pleasent one, however.

In our own country, I've always thought that folks in much of Kentucky have a pleasent way of speaking, as well as folks from the Eastern Shore of Maryland. The standard Mid-Atlantic (Jersey to Baltimore) accent is a little too nasal for my tastes, and has a tendency to corrupt multisyllabic words ("Nork" for Newark, "Bawlmer" for Baltimore, etc.). Seattlites talk like Canadians western Canadians.

I have a slightly nasal downstate New York accent. Not as heavy as Donald Trump, but still noticeable. I say "draw" for drawer and say FAR-est for Forest.

3 posted on 03/21/2007 2:22:52 PM PDT by Clemenza (NO to Rudy in 2008! New York's Values are NOT America's Values!)
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To: Clemenza
"The standard Mid-Atlantic (Jersey to Baltimore) accent is a little too nasal for my tastes..."

I grew up with a very strong Western PA/Pittsburgh accent...When I went to college in Gettysburg, on the eastern side of the Alleghenies, a number of people thought I was an exchange student and asked what country I was from...

14 posted on 03/21/2007 3:01:34 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack
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