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According to this and what I've learned in classes, the change happened because people were moving in and their accents kinda had an influence on the way people talked over time. I'm from southeast Michigan, so I don't really have the midwestern accent a lot of people here at MSU have. I live in nothern Virginia now and that only differences between how we speak are the words we use to describe stuff. Instead of a shopping cart I call it a buggy, or instead of soda I call it pop. Stuff like that.
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http://youtu.be/fJODPPPP2rY Here's a list of the words: Aluminium, salmon,talk, caramel, lieutenant, mirror, scone, nearly, bath, grass, near, bacon, beer can, again, been, garage, process, hot, coffee, thought, not, tomato, potato, cheese,cake, Barbie, fond,duck, dog, cat, fish, chips, milk, friend, fried, disenchanted, sleep, dream, state, cinema, last ,lost, Raxocoricopalavitorious, antidisestablishmentarianism, dance, copper, win, one, on, herbs, rotten. Someone else do it too to help me feel less knob-ish about the whole thing! Last edited by Dex; 07-27-2014 at 11:05 AM.. |
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I live in NC but I'm originally from NY so I sorta have a NY and Southern accent combined.
I love Christine's accent though I'm not sure what the name of it is. And I love Scouse/Liverpool accents. Which reminds me... HELP ME! Ever since that Grammy thing with the Beatles I've been obsessing over them. I think its coming to a point where I might like them more than Fleetwood Mac. AND I'VE BEEN OBSESSED WITH THE MAC FOR 17 YEARS, SINCE I WAS THREE YEARS OLD!!!!! HELP ME!!!!!!! |
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I'm a bit confused about the words for the challenge. Surely there's only one way to say on, last etc? lol. I'm Scottish so here's the words that North Americans commonly say differently to the Brits:
Aluminium is said like al-u-min-i-um. Herbs - emphasis on the h. mirror - more of an i sound. In movies it always sounds like mere. garage - gar-age (as in age, how old you are). Tomato isn't said like potato. The a is like apple or aligator. Anti - ant-ay, movies (sad that everything I knew is from movies) say it like antiiii or semiiii, we don't emphasise that i. Oh nearly forgot: scone - said like gone. Think that's all |
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Heck no! Accents manifest themselves in all words. People elongate sounds, insert different vowel sounds, emphasize different bits, etc. "Last" in particular is a great one to demonstrate accents. "On" is admittedly more subtle but the differences are still there. You said you're Scottish. People in my bit of England are notoriously bad at understanding Scottish people. It's definitely more than just the words you listed that are pronounced differently. It's every word. Every accent takes some getting used to if it's new to your ears.
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Does that make sense? Also, I think Christine's accent would best be described as Standard Southern English. |
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I have a southern accent (Tennessee), but I TRY my best to downplay it. Yes, we Southerners have that "ignorant hillbilly" stereotype. I'm well educated and have a successful career, so it's infuriating when someone pegs me as stupid because of my accent or the area that I live in.
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Chicago girl here. I don't have the stereotypical (ie SNL Superfans) accent, but not many do anymore. That's more of a southside or old school city worker accent. I do notice a more nasally "o" in comparison to my coworkers who aren't from here (ie I say "Cahstco" instead of "Cawstco"). There's also a dialect difference, such as me saying gym shoes, pop, and kiddy corner, whereas they say sneakers, soda, and kaddy corner.
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Christine is actually from Birmingham and I do still sort of get that in her speech, although her accent has been neutralised considerably from living in various places and I do think it's fairly "standard" these days, yeah. I'm from Canada and say "myeh-rurr". Go team! How do you say it, golddustsongbird? I can't get used to people who say it "meer" to be honest. It's unsophisticated of me, but I do just find it a bit... funny-sounding. I guess I need to spend more time in America to just get used to it. Wahoo! Another reason for travelling! |
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Most times I end up saying "on" like "own."
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