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What Kind of American Accent Do You Have?
The Economic Policy Journal ^
| 11-24-2011
| By Xavier Kun
Posted on 11/25/2011 4:19:03 PM PST by blam
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To: beaversmom
I often have trouble being understood ordering an almond croissant. I don’t know how to correctly pronounce ‘almond’, I think I pronounce it with the ‘L’ silent, but even when I say ‘al-mond’ they still don’t understand me.
To: beaversmom
I usually take British Airways when travelling to Europe (which airline I do recommend), and some of the stew staff speak with such strong Cockney accent that I don’t understand them when they propose chicken or beef, or ask if i want ice with my tomaHto juice.
To: blam
Born in Mississippi, raised in Atlanta
My accent is "The Midland"
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posted on
11/25/2011 6:37:20 PM PST
by
Chunga
(What a load of codswallop!)
To: blam
Amazingly enough, it got mine right as “The South.” I’m central Virginia born and raised and have a *very* slight Southern accent. I can dial it up and down but it comes out more when I’m tired.
What’s odd is that my part of Virginia (the Lynchburg/Roanoke area, basically the Blue Ridge Mountains and foothills) has a very odd and distinctive accent where “ou” sounds don’t get pronounced as “ow,” but almost as “oo.” My mom, and to a lesser extent my dad, both born and raised in or near Lynchburg, pronounced “house” in a way that I almost can’t spell...not “hoose” but maybe “heyerse?” I can pick out somebody from that part of Virginia a mile away still, but weirdly, I didn’t get the accent. I prounounce “ou” as “ow” like most of the rest of the country.
Of course there is no “Southern accent”...there’s dozens of different ones. I’ve lived in Virginia and both Carolinas and it’s very easy to tell regional differences apart with a bit of practice. Hell, in South Carolina, go fifty miles inland from Charleston and the accents completely change from the classic Foghorn Leghorn/Fritz Hollings Lowcountry drawl to something that sounds more like Alabama or Mississippi.
}:-)4
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posted on
11/25/2011 6:40:49 PM PST
by
Moose4
("Oderint dum metuant" -- "Let them hate, as long as they fear." (Lucius Accius, c. 130 BC))
To: Baynative
I was born and raised in Arizona. Moved to Pensacola FL as a teenager. The girls my sister and I hung with one day asked us why we always called them guys, like “come on you guys, let’s go you guys, what are you guys doing?”
We then switched to y’all.
To: beaversmom
We refer to soft drinks as pop in Ohio too.
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posted on
11/25/2011 6:45:03 PM PST
by
muggs
(Hope and Change = Hoax and Chains)
To: Krankor
The Midwest is home to standard American English--the anchorman accent, as you say. Get away from Pittsburgh but then from Ohio west to, say, Nebraska, Kansas, maybe Colorado, no accent.
To: blam
The quiz correctly identifies me as being from the West.
To: blam
I was born in Oklahoma, and lived there the first 22 years of my life. After that, eight years in Nebraska, now six in Iowa. Couple that with Mom's being from Northwest Ohio, and you get:
"You have a Midland accent" is just another way of saying "you don't have an accent." You probably are from the Midland (Pennsylvania, southern Ohio, southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and Missouri) but then for all we know you could be from Florida or Charleston or one of those big southern cities like Atlanta or Dallas. You have a good voice for TV and radio.
Carbonated beverages are, more often than not, "soda" (65-35 over "pop").
Dad and my brothers have a gentle kind of accent, like a thin layer of butter on a biscuit. This accent is not to be confused with the shotgun-blast-of-rock-salt accent you hear from Paula Deen, Reba McEntire, et al.
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posted on
11/25/2011 6:48:02 PM PST
by
Category Four
(Joy, Fun, the Joke Proper, and Flippancy ... Flippancy is the best of all.)
To: blam
Southern here...raised by two hillbillies in SE MI. Spent the last 33 years in AZ. Everyone here tells me I have a midwest accent.
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posted on
11/25/2011 6:50:00 PM PST
by
hope
To: Category Four
Paula Deen’s accent is as fake as it can be.
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posted on
11/25/2011 6:50:10 PM PST
by
Eaker
(Nothing even remotely praising Romney should be posted because one should stick to the truth.)
To: thefoundersrock
What you call drinks may not be the best test. My mom was from Minnesota so I grew up calling it pop even though I'm from Arizona.
To: Eaker
Then why would she use it, unless it’s her way of mugging for the camera. (From what I understand, she’s not slouch at cooking, but that’s another discussion.)
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posted on
11/25/2011 6:51:52 PM PST
by
Category Four
(Joy, Fun, the Joke Proper, and Flippancy ... Flippancy is the best of all.)
To: Cyber Liberty
t drives my CA babe wife nutz when I call Coke pop. Why?
That's what it is.
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posted on
11/25/2011 6:54:30 PM PST
by
ROCKLOBSTER
( Celebrate Republicans Freed the Slaves Month.)
To: jocon307
I was born in Brooklyn, but am forever grateful that my parents moved us to accent-free California when I was all of two months of age — totally avoided that guttural accent.
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posted on
11/25/2011 6:55:33 PM PST
by
ErnBatavia
(Obama Voters: Jose Baez wants YOU for his next jury pool.......)
To: Category Four
I have no idea why she would use such a horribly fake accent unless it is a trademark of some sort.
I can’t stand to listen to her because of it so I cannot comment on her show or cooking skills.
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posted on
11/25/2011 6:57:56 PM PST
by
Eaker
(Nothing even remotely praising Romney should be posted because one should stick to the truth.)
To: Eaker
Paula Deens accent is as fake as it can be. So is it true that Christiana Amampour is really from The Bronx?
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posted on
11/25/2011 6:58:20 PM PST
by
ROCKLOBSTER
( Celebrate Republicans Freed the Slaves Month.)
To: beaversmom
but like the voices of reporters Keith Morrison Morrison is Canadian, from Saskatchewan.
To: blam
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posted on
11/25/2011 7:00:28 PM PST
by
GlockThe Vote
(The Obama Adminstration: 2nd wave of attacks on America after 9/11)
To: ROCKLOBSTER
Said I was from the South, as I’m born and raised in Ga. hit it right on. Though I have been asked if I was from the Midwest before, the cute New Hampshire girl I once talked to thought my southern accent was cute.
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posted on
11/25/2011 7:01:09 PM PST
by
Mmogamer
(I refudiate the lamestream media, leftists and their prevaricutions.)
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