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South Arkansas (originally from and still here). What Albert recognizes as ghetto I probably picked up from the majority ~50% black population in my city.
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When you say English English you realise that Great Britain has more dialects and accents than all of North America, right? I've recently moved from Suffolk to Norfolk, a hour long car drive, and the people speak funny up here! |
You all speak funny up there!
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Brent
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Analyze this:
My parents are Mom and Dad, my grandparents are Farfar, Farmor, Grandpa and Grandma, my father and his siblings call their parents Dad and Mom, my mother and her siblings call their parents Father and Mother, one of my greatgrandmothers was Nana.
I say "grossery" and "groshery" sounds strange.
Sometimes I say "Y'all" and "Ain't" for fun.
My father says "this pants" and "fift", which are both wrong to me.
What I call "stuffing" my grandfather calls "dressing", whereas to me "dressing" is something else.
Probably not enough to go on, but...
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mrmitchell
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Sprayber
http://www.city-data.com/city/Camden-Arkansas.html
Albert Speer
It's "greasy", no Z.
Imran Siddiqu
Closer than Albert. South, yes, rural, almost. I've never lived outside city limits, but it's hardly a thriving metropolis. Just click the link I have fer Sprayber.
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JimmyCracksCorn
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Macedonia - Sovereign country north of Greece.
Dec 2002
time: 05:22
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When you say English English you realise that Great Britain has more dialects and accents than all of North America, right? I've recently moved from Suffolk to Norfolk, a hour long car drive, and the people speak funny up here! |
You'd be surprised, there are literally thousands accents and sub-accents here in North America, you probably just don't hear them... just like most North Americans don't hear all yours aside from the obvious ones (Cockney vs. Liverpool, etc...)
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Brent
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here's more to go on for me.
foods in the family: fiskegrateng, krossmakronur, yoktetakk, aebleskiver, riskrem ( I know the spellings aren't right)
I say abowt, not aboot, Eether not Ither, Tomayto not Tomahto
A relative of mine says "Buddins" for Buttons"
A completely different relative says "Here we is"
any constructive/ fair questions?
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JimmyCracksCorn
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Macedonia - Sovereign country north of Greece.
Dec 2002
time: 05:22
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Originally posted by Dauphin
Starchild is Canadian. Well he's not but he is, but not, well he is, but not. That is, he speaks from experience of both sides of the Atlantic and has the accent to prove it. I think I summed that up nicely. |
Yes, but as I take it (I could be wrong) he is basically a Brit who lived in Toronto for a while. I suspect thats not really enough to make him enough of an "insider" to be able to distinguish between an Ontarian and, say, a southern Californian accent.
Another problem with North America is that its huge, so you really have to travel around quite a distance if you want to hear the range in accents we have here, unlike the UK where you can just walk up the road. If you just stay in one place (here) its easy to assume that everyone speaks just like you do, which alot of people do. Plus, we have Brits shoving down our throats that they have all the accents and we have none... an idea which alot of North Americans ignorantly buy into.
North America actually has a very rich and diverse lingustic history. All of the major identifiable accent groups here (New England, Mid Atlantic, Midwestern, Southern, Ozarks, Appalachia, Western, Canadian, Maritime Canadian, Newfoundland, etc, etc...) can be easily traced back to different linguistic groups in Britain who emigrated to those respective areas of the US and Canada. There's alot of literature on this available. Its really very interesting.
Anyone interested in this I would recommend pick up the book "Albions Seed" by David Fischer. Its quite exhaustive and very informative, although it deals mainly with the US.
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01-10-2004 12:28
Southerner-talk drives me insane trying to understand it. 
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