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Across the Fence:  accents  |
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bohemiangel
True Blue Farmgirl
2087 Posts
Bridget
Ligonier
pa
USA
2087 Posts |
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miss wilma
True Blue Farmgirl
3410 Posts
Wilma
Knob Lick
Ky
USA
3410 Posts |
 Posted - Mar 09 2008 : 07:38:45 AM
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Bridgit what is a gumband, I dont think I talk different but Tina got a big kick about my Ky accent, I think we talk a lot like Tn folks I love the southern talk from Sc Nc and Ga I am just myself doesnt matter where I go or where I am at. Have a good day
Farm Girl #96
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willowtreecreek
True Blue Farmgirl
4813 Posts
Julie
Russell
AR
USA
4813 Posts |
Posted - Mar 09 2008 : 08:16:09 AM
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I have a northern new england accent despite having lived in AR for 11 years. According to my students I emphasize g's on the end of ing words. I say Aunt and not ant. I also get picked on for the way I say button, cotton, oil, barn, car and all ar words. Also I say pen not pin like most people down here. I say soda not coke. I also say things like wicked and pop off which are apparently really weird.
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Alee
True Blue Farmgirl
22941 Posts
Alee
Worland
Wy
USA
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Posted - Mar 09 2008 : 08:29:20 AM
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I have a tendency to pick up accents very quickly when I am around a strong one. When my cousins from Canada come and visit I pick up the way they say "house" and "out" and "about". But I think the rest of the time I have just a plain old western US accent.
Miss Wilma- Your accent is a delight! It is so much fun talking with you on the phone!
Alee
Farmgirl Sister #8
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Annika
True Blue Farmgirl
5602 Posts
Annika
USA
5602 Posts |
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miss wilma
True Blue Farmgirl
3410 Posts
Wilma
Knob Lick
Ky
USA
3410 Posts |
Posted - Mar 09 2008 : 09:10:18 AM
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Alee I love to hear people talk their native way, I also like to talk to English people probably because I have always been fasinated with England, Ilove how New England people talk, but now can you see me going to New England and trying to talk like they do with this voice, I went to the po last week and left my granddaughters here when I got back I asked Brie if anyone called, she yes Mary Jane called so I thought well I will ask more before I call her back, so I said are you sure it was MJ she said Nana I know MJS voice you know she has that Texas Attitude
Farm Girl #96
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CabinCreek-Kentucky
True Blue Farmgirl
8529 Posts
Frannie
Green County
Kentucky
USA
8529 Posts |
Posted - Mar 09 2008 : 09:39:37 AM
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i'm often asked if i am from CANADA .. because of the way i say out, house and about. it's actually 'tidewater virginia' .. where my dad's family came from. i don't have the 'real' southern or kentucky accent .. there are some words here that i'm not sure i could prounounce if i tried. i think my d.c. upbringing cleared the 'southern' accent of my ancestors. xo
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pinkroses
True Blue Farmgirl
2350 Posts
Sheila
Virginia
USA
2350 Posts |
Posted - Mar 09 2008 : 10:01:13 AM
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I live in Virginia ; I have a southern, hillbilly accent as I grew up in the mountains and moved here.
Pinkroses
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Aunt Jenny
True Blue Farmgirl
11381 Posts
Jenny
middle of
Utah
USA
11381 Posts |
Posted - Mar 09 2008 : 10:27:01 AM
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I have a western US sort of accent..if there is one. I do have some southern thrown in ...from my upbringing by Okie relatives...I don't notice it myself, but others have asked me where on earth I am from..hard to pin down I guess. When I lived in Minnesota they thought I was from the south..I don't hear that...but, whatever. It is funny...even here in rural Utah, they have a definate different thing going...alot of people here don't pronouce the T's in button, kitten and words like that...so it is like bu-on, ki-en, I really don't like that, and don't let my kids do that..one of my sons does it I don't catch him. I have even heard teachers do it.
Jenny in Utah
Proud Farmgirl sister #24
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mima
True Blue Farmgirl
1573 Posts
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Posted - Mar 09 2008 : 10:45:07 AM
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you guys -I'm from California! I'm totally stoked to know all you farmgirls!!!!I don' think I have an accent- but I use alot of slang!!!!!
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bohemiangel
True Blue Farmgirl
2087 Posts
Bridget
Ligonier
pa
USA
2087 Posts |
Posted - Mar 09 2008 : 11:12:34 AM
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hehe This is fun!!! :) gumband is a rubber band hehe. Oh how about redd up your room? Anyone know that? I tend to pickup accents super fast too. When we went on a cruise to Bermuda we departed from NY and the people were Italian NYers and had THICK accents and I picked it up in a day everyone asked what part of NY are you from. Oops. When I'm around southern drawls I pick those up. My aunt lives in maine and I tend to pick a lil of that up too. It's fun. I love southern accents my cousins in NC always talk so beautifully.
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miss wilma
True Blue Farmgirl
3410 Posts
Wilma
Knob Lick
Ky
USA
3410 Posts |
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Nance in France
True Blue Farmgirl
1438 Posts
Nancy
St. Laurent de la Salanque
France
1438 Posts |
Posted - Mar 09 2008 : 1:38:51 PM
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| Bonjour, gal pals! Growing up in Tidewater, Virginia, where Cabin Creek Frannie's dad hailed from, my mother says we kids did not have a real southern accent because we grew up watching Captain Kangaroo! However, my accent was pronounced enough when I was living in Massachusetts and working in Boston...I was brand new in the office and asked a few girls "Where are ya'll going to lunch?" One girl turned and said "You're not from around here, are you?"! HA Fast forward 35 years and now I speak French alot, being married to my French hubby and living in southern France the better part of the year. He says I speak it "without an accent" which is a compliment, however the dental receptionist here told him I spoke French with such a charming accent (could have been the novocaine wearing off...). Here is a funny mis-translation for you. For the first six months of our marriage, I was still in Virginia working until I reached early retirement age, and hubby called me when the plane landed in DC. I said I was so excited that we would once again sleep under the "drap d'amour" (sheet of love) and when he gasped and asked me to repeat it, he responded "Oh I was afraid! I thought you said the "drap de mort" (sheet of death)"! Guess I better keep working on that accent....! Hugs to all, Nance |
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Tina Michelle
True Blue Farmgirl
6948 Posts
Tina
sunshine state
FL
USA
6948 Posts |
Posted - Mar 09 2008 : 2:13:20 PM
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LOL Nance that is so funny..gracious I don't really know what my accent would be..I grew up in South Florida where saying "aint" was quite normal. And "ya'll" and "howdy" and so forth..then I got married to a southern guy that had no accent/a radio voice and who's folks were from up in Ohio..and suddenly I found myself saying "redd up the house" ..ha.So my southern backwoods talking of saying "aint" sort of went to the wayside a little.
So I really don't know what kind of accent I have now.
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miss wilma
True Blue Farmgirl
3410 Posts
Wilma
Knob Lick
Ky
USA
3410 Posts |
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KYgurlsrbest
True Blue Farmgirl
4853 Posts
Jonni
Elsmere
Kentucky
USA
4853 Posts |
Posted - Mar 09 2008 : 2:27:51 PM
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Miss Wilma, folks in England might think you're from Cornwall :) It's very rural and very southern, and they have a rubberband british accent, which doubles like Virginia and real southern coastal sections of NC.
Farmgirl Sister #80, thanks to a very special farmgirl from the Bluegrass..."She was built like a watch, a study in balance ... with a neck and head so refined, like a drawing by DaVinci"...
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KYgurlsrbest
True Blue Farmgirl
4853 Posts
Jonni
Elsmere
Kentucky
USA
4853 Posts |
Posted - Mar 09 2008 : 2:30:20 PM
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I don't know that I have an accent, really. I have coloquialisms native to Kentucky and my father, from Louisiana, but I only "hear" my southern "shaded" speech when I'm in the East. Thank goodness we're not like my Aunt from Rockford, Ill. You know where she's from right off the bat!
Farmgirl Sister #80, thanks to a very special farmgirl from the Bluegrass..."She was built like a watch, a study in balance ... with a neck and head so refined, like a drawing by DaVinci"...
NY Newsday sportswriter Bill Nack describing filly, Ruffian.
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Lainey
True Blue Farmgirl
2401 Posts
Elaine
Waco
Kentucky
USA
2401 Posts |
Posted - Mar 10 2008 : 07:05:26 AM
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I'm not sure what kind of accent I have. I have a friend from California who said he didn't notice that I had much of an accent. I have a friend from Kansas who thinks I have a southern accent. I'm thinking it's closer to a hillbilly or a country folk type accent. I can really hear the hillbilly when I listen to my speech recorded like on an answering machine. It's a funny thing about accents I guess, they sound different to different people. My husband is from Sweden and most people who meet him for the first time will ask if he's from Pennsylvania.
Farmgirl Sister #25
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Amie C.
True Blue Farmgirl
2099 Posts
Finger Lakes Region
NY
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Posted - Mar 10 2008 : 07:44:17 AM
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| I've been told that Rochester has a distinctive, nasally accent. I can hear it when I listen to local radio, but I hardly ever notice it when talking to someone in person. I don't think I have the accent myself though. When I lived in Philadelphia, people sometimes told me I had a totally neutral Midwestern voice. Speaking of Philly, I miss the Philly accent! I want to eat some wooder ice and color with my crowns! |
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Meg
Moderator/Farmgirl True
974 Posts
Meg
Idaho
USA
974 Posts |
Posted - Mar 10 2008 : 07:54:41 AM
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Lainey, I never thought I could claim to have much of an accent until I moved to Kansas (from Washington state) and they all teased me about my accent, made me proud to be from somewhere! That's the wonderful thing about all ya'll's accents!!
MaryJane's daughter,
Meg
megan@maryjanesfarm.org |
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lisamarie508
True Blue Farmgirl
2648 Posts
Lisa
Idaho City
ID
USA
2648 Posts |
Posted - Mar 10 2008 : 08:04:09 AM
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Coming from WNY and living in Utah for nearly 6 years and now here for almost 8, I think if I even have an accent, it's all mixed up and undiscernable. But my friends will poke fun at me when I say "yeah" instead of yes because I guess it sounds NYish. They also make fun of the fact that I pronounce "elementary" just the way it is spelled and not "elementry". I've even been told I'm not pronouncing it correctly! I don't know if that's really an accent thing it's just the way I've always pronounced it. I've noticed here that when people say they are going to do something they say "I was gunoo", which I find funny.
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Linda Houston
True Blue Farmgirl
538 Posts
Linda
Lake Charles
Louisiana
USA
538 Posts |
Posted - Mar 10 2008 : 2:25:40 PM
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I did not think I had an accent until we moved to Chicago and when I spoke people would ask me to speak some more. They thought I had a lovely southern drawl. Wellllll, when I hear myself on tape...I AIN"T no southern peach...I thnk I sound like a hill billie...It's all in the ears....
I do love to hear the different speach patterns and accents. down in La. you can travel 2 miles and listen to a different dialic in 20 different parishes. I love it. We have Creole, French, Cajun, some spanish mixed in, and then the ole time New Orleans accent....very distinct. |
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sweetproserpina
True Blue Farmgirl
535 Posts
meg
Vinemount
Ontario
Canada
535 Posts |
Posted - Mar 10 2008 : 5:04:07 PM
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Hehe, I definitely have a Canadian accent. I don't think I sound like the Mackenzie brothers, but I do say 'eh' an awful lot, and though I can't tell, I'm sure my 'out' and 'about's would make you gals giggle. My 'a's are the worst, especially 'ar's. Definitely noticeable. Every once in a blue moon I'll stop myself after saying a certain word and think, gosh that was a really strong accent. I love hearing different accents, and pick them up really easily when I'm around them. Last month when I was in Virginia, I had a hoot listening to all the "y'all's" Totally fun. It would be so neat to hear what everyone on the forum sounded like. We'll have to have a great big get-together one day =;-)
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