Why Northerners Think All Southerners Have One Accent
Sep 3, 2016 14:14:28 #
rickerb
Loc: utah
My mother went to visit my brother who had just moved to Houston. Being born and raised in Utah, she had to have my sister-in-law translate the conversation with the hairdresser in a beauty salon. Just too big of a spread between Utahan brogue and the hairdresser's Texas accent.
Sep 3, 2016 15:03:49 #
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
I sent the article to my older children who remember being blown over in their tent in a storm at Ocracoke.
Buying school supplies in Winston-Salem continues to delight: pin or pen. I might could do it.
A spelling test in Needham Heights, Mass., with errors in interpreting a Boston accent.
This superb article explains it all. Bless you.
I sent the article to my older children who remember being blown over in their tent in a storm at Ocracoke.
Buying school supplies in Winston-Salem continues to delight: pin or pen. I might could do it.
A spelling test in Needham Heights, Mass., with errors in interpreting a Boston accent.
This superb article explains it all. Bless you.
Sep 3, 2016 15:14:25 #
Lady Red
Loc: Puget Sound, WA
Being from the great state of Misery, I was constantly being asked what part of the South I am from. It was amazing how many otherwise intelligent (?) folks think Misery is in the South, even though it is north of the Mason-Dixon line! I am able to switch my "accent" off and on now, but have been known to slip on some words, such as yellow, toll, fish, etc., that are a dead give away.
Actually I was from so far out in the country that I lived on a gravel road and the closest town of any size was over 2 hours away.
Actually I was from so far out in the country that I lived on a gravel road and the closest town of any size was over 2 hours away.
Sep 3, 2016 22:29:03 #
Excuse my haste for using irregardless instead of regardless. According to the Urban Dictionary: "Of course everyone knows what you mean to say and only a pompous,rude asshole will correct you."
Sep 4, 2016 00:41:53 #
John_F wrote:
My dictionary defines irregardless as an irregular adverb of regardless. This implies that irregardless may always be replaced by regardless. Once before I tried to discover whether the "ir" prefix added any nuances of meaning to regardless and came up empty handed. Any supremo English Majors out there.
Irregardless is considered by grammarians as a substandard substitute for regardless. It's sad to say that, since it's used so much, it may become acceptable in spoken usage, but it will probably never be acceptable in formal writing.
John, the old English teacher.
Sep 4, 2016 03:10:23 #
jaymatt wrote:
Irregardless is considered by grammarians as a substandard substitute for regardless. It's sad to say that, since it's used so much, it may become acceptable in spoken usage, but it will probably never be acceptable in formal writing.
John, the old English teacher.
John, the old English teacher.
You couldn't have taught them much!
Sep 4, 2016 09:42:10 #
ken hubert wrote:
You couldn't have taught them much!
Meaning what, exactly?
Sep 4, 2016 09:59:52 #
Sendai5355 wrote:
Excuse my haste for using irregardless instead of regardless. According to the Urban Dictionary: "Of course everyone knows what you mean to say and only a pompous,rude asshole will correct you."
A pompous, rude asshole will get upset when they are corrected. Perhaps, without realizing it, you learned something.
Sep 4, 2016 13:46:47 #
Manny Jay
Loc: Colorado
At the counter where I worked, I asked the young lady for her first name. She replied with something that, to me, sounded like "Do-an". I said, "D O A N"? "No, Do-an, Do-an." I pointed at her and asked, "New York?" She said, "Yeh." I said, "Dawn?" "Yes."
Sep 5, 2016 10:33:52 #
Lived in Colorado for 50 years and now 15 years in Washington state and still talk Kentuckian!! 
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