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I'm not sure this is quite right.
Folks have told me that I say "fire" as one syllable, something like "fyhr"; I guess others enunciate two syllables.
Living in the South -- at least the upper South -- I picked up useful expressions like "y'all" and "mash that button."
Cincinnatians have a slightly twangy way of speaking that northern Ohioans can pick up; those from up near Canada have a slightly nasally way of talking that we from down south can pick up. Then again, you have a very pronounced Appalachian accent that shows up in various parts of Ohio, but I assume is strongly centered in the Southeast?
(Biretta tip: Father Jim Tucker at Dappled Things.)
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I came out the same as you Father, but since we're both from Cincy, I guess that makes sense.
A blessed day to you...you remain in my daily prayers.
Well, Father, I too as a Midlander. They are accurate to the point that I grew up in Dallas. However, they ain't said nuthin' 'bout "ain't," "y'all," or "ol" (the last one meaning something you lubricate your engine with).
I reckon I don't have much of an accent. I certainly don't have that Texas drawl you hear about. But, I DO turn it on when I get around my folks. Go figure.
As an extreme southern Indiana native (think Evansville)my accent somehow suggested to west central Ohioans that I must be from the deep south. I overcame my S. IN accent but in traveling to FL it returns as soon as we pass the Alabama border. I actually begin to THINK in southin' talk.
Miss Julia
I came out as Northeast mainly Philadelphia and Inland North.
I have lived either in Sydney or Melbourne Australia all of my life. I careful Australian could tell that I am not a native Melbournian.
Wow - they nailed me, right down to calling carbonated beverages "pop"!
I had a linguistics professor pull me aside and ask me to record words for a test he was giving once. He asked where I was from (Detroit), then where my parents were from (Detroit and Chicago), and then told me he wanted me to do this because he thought I had the quintessential Midwestern accent. And my boyfriend thinks it's cute that I have this nasal twang, whereas I think it's cute that he, as a Canadian, says "aboot"...
I am definitely Philly all the way - but not South Philly. Believe it or not, there is a definite difference.
Update - my Canadian boyfriend scored "as Philly as cheese steak." How southern Ontario sounds Philly is beyond me. After all, there's a big lake in the way!
I'm surprised they don't have the Pittsburgh accent here. Not that all Pittsburghers have it, but it's very distinctive n'at !
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I must not know how I speak. I know that I still have a Southern accent (even after a number of years living outside of the South). I got pegged as North Central.
Why, honey child, I can easily make "I" into 5 syllables.
It came out dead on in my case. Identifed as northeast, probably from New Jersey, New York City, Rhode Island, etc. I'm a native New Yorker. Got me.
Got me dead on.
solid red "inland North" which nails me.
Thanks for passing this along.
It said I was from Philadelphia; I've never been to Philadelhpia. I was born in New Orleans and lived there till I was 30.
I suppose New Orleanian accents are hard to place. Moreover, television homogenizes accents.
narwen writes: "I'm surprised they don't have the Pittsburgh accent here."
This refers to an accent found widely in Western Pennsylvania, but I prefer to think of it as a Youngstown (OH) accent. Youngstowners sound like no one else in Ohio and, in many ways, exist in their own cultural and political enclave. Those born in Youngstown 50 or so years ago, no matter where they go, never get the city out of their blood, their speech, or their lungs.
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