You's dun do shur talk funny.

We have people from all over on the FHC. However, typing does not always animate words the way speaking them does. What kind of surprises me though is the variance even a few miles can make or different life experiences can give to how a person speaks. What are some of the differences even locally that you notice in language, pronunciation or phrasing. Examples-I moved just 2 hours north to where my wife is from and the area all pronounce the word "bag" with a strong A, like how able is said vs a soft a how I grew up saying like apple. Another thing I say and she can not get over is, and it probably is from my farm kid and OTR trucking days, I need to put some fuel or gas "on" when referring to filling the tank of whatever I happen to be driving. I know that I am correct because my beautiful bride must not be very sharp, she agreed to marry me and who would be foolish enough to do that?!

 

Almost all of the old-timers with an old country accent are gone now. You could hear Irish and Ukrainian accents 20 years ago. I haven't heard much of the Cree Indian accent either. One time a trucker from Boston had his truck in the shop for a week and I could have sworn I was listening to JFK. Another time, must have been 50 years ago, a friend had a old gentleman from Amarillo, Texas visiting. I couldn't understand a word he said.

BTW, you know your part of Dakotah Territory was in Rupert's Land?

18°F / -7°C tonight in Rupert's Land.

 

We say y'all like yawl, folks up in GA mountains, say youins, far for fire, bar for bear, and some ol' timers would ask you for hope, meaning help.

 

In addition to Boston accents, we have a smattering of French Canadian influence, from the decendants of millworkers. I love to hear older French Canadian ladies speak their brand of American. If you're from around here, you know Levesque is pronounced laVEK.

 

Being from central Pa, we have the Pennsylvania Dutch.
Mom always told us to redd up our room. meaning clean up. Still hear it occasionally.

A: The verbal phrase “redd up” (also seen as “red up,” “ret up,” and even “rid up”) has its roots in a Middle English verb redden, which meant to rescue or free from, or to clear. Today, “redd up” means to clear an area or make it tidy.

 

New Yorkers add an "r" to the end of a word that ends in an "a"

And northeasterners drop the "r" at the end of a word.

 

Glad I’m from Michigan.... where we talk proper...

 

An "h" replaces the "r" sometimes if preceded by an "a".

 

you keep up that kinda talk cousin Vinny gunna pay you a visit................

 

Unless it is pronounce laVEKee, then there is leVAKE (less common). Gets confusing when you know several people with the same spelling of their last name but they all insist that is pronounced differently

 

cousin vinny better stay in the city where he can buy protection...
us mountain folk don't play nice.

 

On our route to florida, we stopped in southern Georgia for gas and food. We got Subway subs and neither me or my wife could understand much of what the the lady taking and making our order said. Now I'm fully used to Georgia accents, but this lady was new to the job, and may have had other issues as well. All of these factors added up to make the process much more difficult.

 

Did ya' get the food you ordered?

 

My family is from Alabama. Hanceville and Cullman.
I'm a Colorado native. My sister and I always got a kick when the
relatives would visit. The one thing I always wondered about:
In Alabama, you don't take some one to the store...as in
"could you take me to the store." It's carry...."could you
carry me to the store." Never could get the picture out of my head....
of my Uncle carrying my Aunt to the store.
..and they always thought we were a little strange because it took us
forever to figure out who y'awl was.

 

Accent? What accent? It's the rest of youse guys!

 

There, fixed that right up for ya.


You won't find those shenanigans going on here in Western, or "upstate" New York.

I can't think of any local colloquialism's but I'm sure we have some.

I am familiar with youins, yinz, and "redd up" as my parents were immigrants from Pennsylvania, and I still have relatives in the old country.


During my southern travels, I quickly incorporated y'all into my dialect, but still don't know where the heck "o'er yonder is at".


I do enjoy hearing the way others talk, met a guy from Bahstin once, wow, that was great.


Have met Brits, Aussies, and others during my travels. I'm sure that South Korean's have different dialects as well, but since I barely had even a crude understanding of the language, I couldn't say.

 

Same thing here, just across the river in Quebec we are adjacent to the only county that is basically english/irish. They have their own dialect. Here in the Ottawa Valley, it too has a distinct lingo as well. Not too far south west of here, the oldest polish settlement in Canada still holds very close to it's roots in language and customs.
A lot of the french based names have pronunciation unlike the spelling............i.e. Bernier is (Bern-yaa), Gagne is (Gone-yaa) and Ethier is (Etch-yaa).

 

You must be from the LP. Just like most Wisconsinites, we talk properly as well.

I recall when I was in college, in a broadcasting class, that the professor said that people from the midwest that don't have an accent ( some do, and it's thick) have a greater chance of getting a job in on air broadcasting.

Watching local news around the country, you can definitely tell which ones are from the Midwest.

 

Mostly.
I didn't ask for my Italian BMT to be toasted, but that was fine. The lady struggled with cutting a fresh piece of bread in half, and which half to give me. After she put the subs in the toaster, a different girl finished the orders. I think had that not happened, our subs would've been a bit different than what we ordered.

 

doesn't help many southerners mumble and talk fast and run words together like their in a hurry...
when they are clearly, Never in a hurry...