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Nov. 2nd, 2006 02:13 pm| What American accent do you have? Your Result: The Northeast Judging by how you talk you are probably from north Jersey, New York City, Connecticut or Rhode Island. Chances are, if you are from New York City (and not those other places) people would probably be able to tell if they actually heard you speak. | |
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I suppose I only have the 'where the hell do you come from again?' speech pattern if I'm really trying.
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Date: 2006-11-02 02:35 pm (UTC)Down here in Murland, "water" is "wudder," and you use it to "warsh" your car.
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Date: 2006-11-02 02:42 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2006-11-02 03:00 pm (UTC)Or unless I'm talking about playground equipment, because nowhere else in the country do they refer to the metal slanty things as 'sliding ponds'. I can no longer rely on the front steps of a house being the 'stoop' as an identifier word, because they use it that way in Jersey City. They don't have yard sales or garage sales, because the only yard is the backyard and there's no garages available. They have stoop sales instead.
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Date: 2006-11-02 03:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-11-02 04:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-11-02 05:26 pm (UTC)Northeast Iowa vocabulary.
Date: 2006-11-02 05:53 pm (UTC)In the summer of 1968, when I was eating in the dining hall of Western Western Washington State University in Bellingham, a man who walked by asked me, "What part of Nebraska are you from."
I replied, "What makes you think I'm from Nebraska," and he said, "I used to live around Lincoln," and walked on.
Actually, I'm a 5th-generation Northeast Iowan, who had been living in northeast Nebraska for only the previous 2 years.
I found your blog, by listing "Ainu" as one of my interests.
Jerry Baker
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Date: 2006-11-02 11:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-11-02 11:53 pm (UTC)*twitch*
*twitchtwitchtwitch* ;)
Re: Northeast Iowa vocabulary.
Date: 2006-11-03 12:21 am (UTC)Interesting on the Ainu front, though. I just dug a bunch of my old anthro books about the Ainu out of storage and got them on the shelves the other day.
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Date: 2006-11-03 03:19 am (UTC)Full marks for Northeast. Huh. I had no idea the northeast was so English.