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Offline NatCigg

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Re: Yank accents on VOX
« Reply #90 on: January 22, 2014, 08:57:53 AM »
have fun in da up eh?

gooing ta waash my sweatshirt.

too maach ice on tha lake for da boot.

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Re: Yank accents on VOX
« Reply #91 on: January 22, 2014, 09:36:11 AM »
This was on TV last night :aok


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0030637/

Professor makes a bet that he can teach a Flower girl with a Cockney Accent to speak proper.
George Bernard Shaw play.

Here in Jersey, we say things like Jeet yet? (Did you eat yet).
We say shoulda, woulda, coulda, Trent -in (Trenton), Noork (Newark)
North Jersey is totally different people, accents, etc. South Jersey we have more of a Philly dialect :aok
                                                                                                    
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Re: Yank accents on VOX
« Reply #92 on: January 22, 2014, 11:33:45 AM »
I'm from Michigan.  What's "yinz"?
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Re: Yank accents on VOX
« Reply #93 on: January 22, 2014, 08:49:49 PM »
What surprised me was the question do the words "bag" and "vague" rhyme? For me, the "a" is short on "bag" and long on "vague".

I came out neutral as well, even though I live only an hour north of the Louisiana line. I have a very deep voice (players on vox think i'm over twice my age), but the quiz didn't take into account words like: Do you say "y'all"? Do you cut off -ing words like "fixin'"? Do you say "should'a/of, could'a/of, or would'a/of" instead of "should have, could have, or would have"?

In north central US, Dakotas etc., they don't pronounce leg and egg like layg and ayg, they way they say leg and egg rhymes with reg. So it wouldn't surprise me if they pronounce bag like bayg.

Pronouncing should've as should of is one thing, but actually writing "should of" is so stupid that it disgusts me to the core.
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Re: Yank accents on VOX
« Reply #94 on: January 22, 2014, 08:58:36 PM »
Also, have you noticed that some sickos in america don't pronounce roof and root the same as foot, book, cook and hook.
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Re: Yank accents on VOX
« Reply #95 on: January 22, 2014, 09:14:30 PM »
http://spelling.wordpress.com/2007/09/05/english-pronunciation/
 
Dearest creature in creation,
Study English pronunciation.
I will teach you in my verse
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse.
I will keep you, Suzy, busy,
Make your head with heat grow dizzy.
Tear in eye, your dress will tear.
So shall I! Oh hear my prayer.
Just compare heart, beard, and heard,
Dies and diet, lord and word,
Sword and sward, retain and Britain.
(Mind the latter, how it’s written.)
Now I surely will not plague you
With such words as plaque and ague.
But be careful how you speak:
Say break and steak, but bleak and streak;
Cloven, oven, how and low,
Script, receipt, show, poem, and toe.
Hear me say, devoid of trickery,
Daughter, laughter, and Terpsichore,
Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles,
Exiles, similes, and reviles;
Scholar, vicar, and cigar,
Solar, mica, war and far;
One, anemone, Balmoral,
Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel;
Gertrude, German, wind and mind,
Scene, Melpomene, mankind.
Billet does not rhyme with ballet,
Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet.
Blood and flood are not like food,
Nor is mould like should and would.
Viscous, viscount, load and broad,
Toward, to forward, to reward.
And your pronunciation’s OK
When you correctly say croquet,
Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve,
Friend and fiend, alive and live.
Ivy, privy, famous; clamour
And enamour rhyme with hammer.
River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb,
Doll and roll and some and home.
Stranger does not rhyme with anger,
Neither does devour with clangour.
Souls but foul, haunt but aunt,
Font, front, wont, want, grand, and grant,
Shoes, goes, does. Now first say finger,
And then singer, ginger, linger,
Real, zeal, mauve, gauze, gouge and gauge,
Marriage, foliage, mirage, and age.
Query does not rhyme with very,
Nor does fury sound like bury.
Dost, lost, post and doth, cloth, loth.
Job, nob, bosom, transom, oath.
Though the differences seem little,
We say actual but victual.
Refer does not rhyme with deafer.
Foeffer does, and zephyr, heifer.
Mint, pint, senate and sedate;
Dull, bull, and George ate late.
Scenic, Arabic, Pacific,
Science, conscience, scientific.
Liberty, library, heave and heaven,
Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven.
We say hallowed, but allowed,
People, leopard, towed, but vowed.
Mark the differences, moreover,
Between mover, cover, clover;
Leeches, breeches, wise, precise,
Chalice, but police and lice;
Camel, constable, unstable,
Principle, disciple, label.
Petal, panel, and canal,
Wait, surprise, plait, promise, pal.
Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair,
Senator, spectator, mayor.
Tour, but our and succour, four.
Gas, alas, and Arkansas.
Sea, idea, Korea, area,
Psalm, Maria, but malaria.
Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean.
Doctrine, turpentine, marine.
Compare alien with Italian,
Dandelion and battalion.
Sally with ally, yea, ye,
Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, and key.
Say aver, but ever, fever,
Neither, leisure, skein, deceiver.
Heron, granary, canary.
Crevice and device and aerie.
Face, but preface, not efface.
Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass.
Large, but target, gin, give, verging,
Ought, out, joust and scour, scourging.
Ear, but earn and wear and tear
Do not rhyme with here but ere.
Seven is right, but so is even,
Hyphen, roughen, nephew Stephen,
Monkey, donkey, Turk and jerk,
Ask, grasp, wasp, and cork and work.
Pronunciation (think of Psyche!)
Is a paling stout and spikey?
Won’t it make you lose your wits,
Writing groats and saying grits?
It’s a dark abyss or tunnel:
Strewn with stones, stowed, solace, gunwale,
Islington and Isle of Wight,
Housewife, verdict and indict.
Finally, which rhymes with enough,
Though, through, plough, or dough, or cough?
Hiccough has the sound of cup.
My advice is to give up!!!

Offline GScholz

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Re: Yank accents on VOX
« Reply #96 on: January 22, 2014, 09:25:34 PM »
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.
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Re: Yank accents on VOX
« Reply #97 on: January 23, 2014, 12:33:44 AM »
Hee Haw !


Pfffffttttt and you were gone !!!


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Re: Yank accents on VOX
« Reply #98 on: January 23, 2014, 12:38:23 PM »
doesen't matter how a word or sentence is said--we all still know what is said.
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Re: Yank accents on VOX
« Reply #99 on: January 23, 2014, 12:49:35 PM »
doesen't matter how a word or sentence is said--we all still know what is said.

"Bugeees inbuoond 4 oo cluck. Check seex beegle-a. Eble-a Beker I em beengu. Cherleee-a repurts veenchester. Hurty flurty schnipp schnipp! Secundery tergets destruyed. Bork bork bork!"



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Re: Yank accents on VOX
« Reply #100 on: January 23, 2014, 01:57:01 PM »
doesen't matter how a word or sentence is said--we all still know what is said.

Zat iz korret. Ve no dat ven ve saez une verd, zere iz no mizinterpz on vat zat menz! Achtung!
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Re: Yank accents on VOX
« Reply #101 on: January 23, 2014, 03:28:07 PM »
  The Dutch should invade Holland with help from the Netherlands.  :old:
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« Reply #102 on: January 23, 2014, 04:59:37 PM »
  The Dutch should invade Holland with help from the Netherlands.  :old:



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You started this thread and it was obviously about your want and desire in spite of your use of 'we' and Google.

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Re: Yank accents on VOX
« Reply #103 on: January 25, 2014, 08:34:33 AM »
JJ, the Kiwi pilot, visited my town in the U.S.  We were making plans over the phone  to meet for dinner in a decent restaurant when he asked if he should bring a toy.


(incomprehensibly generous yet childish custom?)


I learned later he was asking if he should wear a necktie.

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Re: Yank accents on VOX
« Reply #104 on: January 25, 2014, 11:00:53 AM »
A friend of mine was having a Halloween party at his business and invited us, saying "Please come in fancy dress."  I showed up wearing a suit jacket.  Then I learned what "fancy dress" means when you are British. :)