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Vowel Movement: How Americans near the Great Lakes are radically changing the sound of English
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| August 22, 2012
| Rob Mifsud
Posted on 08/24/2012 2:10:57 PM PDT by JerseyanExile
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To: JerseyanExile; All
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posted on
08/24/2012 7:10:10 PM PDT
by
Right Wing Assault
(Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
To: Right Wing Assault
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posted on
08/24/2012 7:22:57 PM PDT
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: madison10
My family has been in the Cleveland area for 200 years and there is no Cleveland accent. Now Meeshegun on the other hand...
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posted on
08/24/2012 7:52:12 PM PDT
by
eggman
(End the Obama occupation of the White House!)
To: mylife
It’s weird. The old Slovenian and Polish women talk like they’re from Jersey. With Italians, it’s the guys.
Irish guys like me speak perfectly, of course.
My son had a college roommate from Texas. I mentioned he must not have lived there for long since he sounded like he was from Ohio. He told me he lived there his whole life but that he was the only one in the family that talked “right.” LOL when he said that. He said he picked it up from TV.
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posted on
08/24/2012 7:52:12 PM PDT
by
Right Wing Assault
(Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
To: Right Wing Assault
NCS speakers then slide the wha sound into the slot formerly occupied by short o. They now pronounce caught like people from Boston do, but they pronounce cot the way other people say cat. One link down the chain, but tilts toward bought, and further down the short e in words like bet starts to sound like but. The final link in this chain may be the short i of bit elbowing its way in the direction of bet, though its course isnt entirely clear just yet.I've never heard anyone talk like that. What city talks like this?
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posted on
08/24/2012 7:58:39 PM PDT
by
Right Wing Assault
(Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
To: JerseyanExile
Wonderful article, thanks
To: Right Wing Assault
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posted on
08/24/2012 8:13:57 PM PDT
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: JerseyanExile
Love the study of the English language. ty for posting this quite interesting article.
To: steve86; JerseyanExile
Wow!
I am from what is now NW London, England. Wife is from W.London. Reside at the border with Upper Michigan, twin cities with Sault Ste Msrie, Ontario. Army child live in eight different locations in England. Know accents. Find Yoopers quite articulate and note that where certain groups settled there variations occur. Finnish descendants seem to have a slightly different edge with their dialect and so on.
Always chuckle at the common and garden variety of English people like myself, who put on a "special accent" when talking to someone of higher class. This is usually on the telephone.
Some of us need a jolly good laugh and this thread has provided it. This after the stress of the Akin affair.
To: dfwgator
you forgot the old timers who called Port Huron Port Urine.
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posted on
08/24/2012 8:51:47 PM PDT
by
cyclotic
(People who live within their means are increasingly being forced to pay for people who didn't.)
To: dfwgator
you forgot the old timers who called Port Huron Port Urine.
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posted on
08/24/2012 8:53:44 PM PDT
by
cyclotic
(People who live within their means are increasingly being forced to pay for people who didn't.)
To: Right Wing Assault
Chicago really would be the right (yet cliched) answer.
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posted on
08/24/2012 10:06:57 PM PDT
by
JSDude1
To: Right Wing Assault
Isn’t that Wis CAHN sin ?
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posted on
08/25/2012 3:04:11 AM PDT
by
knarf
(I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
To: cripplecreek
In New Jersey, those who live in the northern part of the state typically sound like Anthony Bourdain. When you get closer to Philly, folks start to sound more mentally challenged (ew-pen the drew-er fer my sucks, go Iggles!, etc.). The only people who say "joisey" are Italian-American transplants from the outer boroughs of NYC, and, contrary to popular media, they are a minority in the state.
Here in Brazil, regional accents remain strong, despite mass media. Much as in the northeast in the US, accents are strong among the proles, weak amongst the yuppies.
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posted on
08/25/2012 3:30:53 AM PDT
by
Clemenza
("History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil governm)
To: cripplecreek
The auto companies recruited southerners with the belief that they were less likely to unionize.
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posted on
08/25/2012 3:33:02 AM PDT
by
Clemenza
("History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil governm)
To: JSDude1
Chicago really would be the right (yet cliched) answer.I've been to Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland and I do not recall hearing "cot" pronouneced "cat," "but" like "bought," or "bit" like "bet."
I do marvel at how New Zealanders say "best" as "beast."
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posted on
08/25/2012 4:23:48 AM PDT
by
Right Wing Assault
(Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
To: knarf
Yah, dat’s the place.
My late FIL said it “West-CON-sin.” He was from Rochester. I always wanted to ask him if he’s ever been to “East-CON-sin” but he was hard of hearing so I’m sure he would have replied, “Sure! You know we go to “West-CON-sin” every summer.”
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posted on
08/25/2012 4:28:31 AM PDT
by
Right Wing Assault
(Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
To: Right Wing Assault
” It was funny when, after hearing us N. Ohioans talk, they said, Youre not from around here. I restrained myself from saying, No shit? How could you tell?
I got the same thing when I moved to Colorado. The checkout girl at the supermarket could not understand me at all then the bagger thought it would be amusing to make fun of my accent. He was downright insulting and doesn’t know how close he came to being outside my ‘comfort zone’.
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posted on
08/25/2012 4:51:37 AM PDT
by
dljordan
("Tyranny, like Hell, is not easily conquered.")
To: JerseyanExile; Daffynition; martin_fierro
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posted on
08/25/2012 6:51:22 AM PDT
by
Ezekiel
(The Obama-nation began with the Inauguration of Desolation.)
To: JerseyanExile
I been to Michigan several times, I didn't hear no accent!
Oh yeah, we wuz visitin’ some Texans!
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posted on
08/25/2012 7:02:04 AM PDT
by
Ditter
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