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Offline SPKmes

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Re: Yank accents on VOX
« Reply #75 on: January 21, 2014, 07:35:59 PM »
There are quite a few I hear and my first thought is ....Casey Kasem plays AH.... there is one which is so close I really do often wonder

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Re: Yank accents on VOX
« Reply #76 on: January 21, 2014, 07:36:49 PM »
Spend some in the north. You will give your left (insert body part here) for people to say Y'all instead of "Yinz".  :bhead

I'm from Michigan.  What's "yinz"?

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Re: Yank accents on VOX
« Reply #77 on: January 21, 2014, 07:40:50 PM »
Where the heck to people say thought and it doesn't rhyme with lot?


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"?
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Re: Yank accents on VOX
« Reply #78 on: January 21, 2014, 07:52:13 PM »
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Lets keep the stupid to a minimum.
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Re: Yank accents on VOX
« Reply #79 on: January 21, 2014, 07:54:00 PM »
I'm from Michigan.  What's "yinz"?

Never heard that one. I have heard people from Missouri call me...    you'uns
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Re: Yank accents on VOX
« Reply #80 on: January 21, 2014, 08:09:19 PM »
I'm from Michigan.  What's "yinz"?

Never heard that one. I have heard people from Missouri call me...    you'uns

Mainly used in SW Pennsylvania, parts of Ohio, West Va. (Known as Pittsburghese). Plural replacement for "you all". Example: "Yinz believe that Stiller game" or "Yinz jeet jet?" (Did you guys eat yet?)
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Re: Yank accents on VOX
« Reply #81 on: January 21, 2014, 08:13:32 PM »
Being from the northern Midwest of the US, just about everything in that list (where they say "do X and Y sound alike or different when you say them") sound different when I say them.  "Thought", when I say it, sounds like "caught", "wrought", "brought" -- or spelling it in a different way that is phonetically the same for me "thawt"; and "lot" when I say it sounds like "shot", "hot", "trot", etc.
The question's for people who talk like peter griffin and jfk I think.
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Re: Yank accents on VOX
« Reply #82 on: January 21, 2014, 08:18:43 PM »
As long as there's no banjo music it's fine...
Over cross the pond ...what kindly music is it what blows they highness's to eat and what all. Listen to a hlbly's first exposure to American football.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfMEC58rhRc by the late great Andy Griffith.

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Re: Yank accents on VOX
« Reply #83 on: January 21, 2014, 08:59:10 PM »
Here is a short quiz that asks you simple questions (like "If you say the word THOUGHT, does it rhyme with LOT") and nails which American accent you have.  Quite interesting.  Probably quite funny for non-Americans to take the quiz and see which American accent it thinks you have.

http://www.youthink.com/quiz.cfm?action=go_detail&sub_action=take&obj_id=9827

It said I'm western, wrong coast. It must have thought that because it didn't ask how I tend to say car, there, or four...cah, theyah, fowah.

Fun thread. The map neeley put up is worth looking at.

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Re: Yank accents on VOX
« Reply #84 on: January 21, 2014, 09:06:58 PM »
OK, too many people reporting that quiz gives "neutral" or wrong answers.  Here's another one that might be much better at spotting where in America you are from:

http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2011/11/what-kind-of-american-accent-do-you.html

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Re: Yank accents on VOX
« Reply #85 on: January 21, 2014, 09:14:37 PM »
Loved the quiz. I was born in San Angelo Texas. Lived there for 6 years while dad was instructing at Goodfellow AFB. I got so tired of the teasing. I got a recorder and got rid of it.

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Re: Yank accents on VOX
« Reply #86 on: January 21, 2014, 09:36:17 PM »
Every time one of you febs keys up this is what I hear -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4KEWEi5hE4
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Re: Yank accents on VOX
« Reply #87 on: January 21, 2014, 09:50:03 PM »
Fort Wayne IN is a boring city. Were all Yankees.




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Re: Yank accents on VOX
« Reply #88 on: January 22, 2014, 08:15:19 AM »
I've been talking American my whole life.
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Re: Yank accents on VOX
« Reply #89 on: January 22, 2014, 08:46:55 AM »
Southern and western virginia accent harshes my buzz.