How does your region speak English?

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  1. politicalcenter

    politicalcenter Well-Known Member

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    Yawl must know thet whin the settlers came ovah the big watah years ago, the smartest ones picked the mountain areas of the sowth to settle in... heah they remained isolated ,n thair speech, even aftah many,many years, remained the same az thair forfathah ovah in Shakespeare's part uv England. Most of thair words'n dialect then spread all ovah the Sowth....the Sowth ah sed! So you see, we got most uv the culture thet yawl desperately need!

    Some southern sayings and words I love.


    Cut this board half in two.

    Cut the water on...Cut the water off.

    Bless your heart....a way of saying you are dumb.

    Stob...a small stake.

    Toad strangler....heavy rain.


    Yawl got any??

    >>>the paragraph was stolen from "A Dixie Dictshunary" by Nick and William Powers.
     
  2. CaptBlackEagle

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    I normally refer to a soft drink as a Coke...i.e. Waitress "what will y'all have to drink?" Me "I will have a coke" Waitress "What type?" Me "sprite".
     
  3. politicalcenter

    politicalcenter Well-Known Member

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    Or it can be refered to as a soda or a Co-cola.

    Just remember.... youse guys shouldn't ask fer a pop! They be makin fun of ya!
     
  4. Viv

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    Well people here will ask for a f a g, if they want a cigarette...

    And a sweetie, is something you eat. Candy to you.

    As for coke, in this area we call all soft drinks lemonade. But a few miles along the road, they call everything "ginger".

    An old man here is an "ow" man. A few miles down the cost, he's an owl man. Up the coast, he's an auld man.

    Here is the translation of the OP opening paragraph though:

    Yeez aw must know whin the settlers cim ovir the big wattir years ago, the smartest wans picked the mountain areas a the south tae settle in... Herre they remained isolated, in thir speech even eftir mini, mini years, remained the same az thir forfethers ovir in Shakespeare's part a Inglind. Most a thir words 'n dialect then spread oot aw ovir the South....the South a sed! So ye see, we've git most a the culture thit yeez aw despritly need!
     
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    Aye, & they mostly tawked that wey, when they farst settled there. There be a fair bit of ulster scot in me line.
     
  6. politicalcenter

    politicalcenter Well-Known Member

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    Cool Viv... We have Some Scottish and Irish thrown in also.

    I thought about naming this post English as a foreign language.

    Crick.....a sprane... Ole Jason got a terrible crick in his neck....or...a little bitty stream.

    Jumpin the broom....to get married.

    A saying....Az scarce as hens teeth....or... Az plentiful as fleas on a dogs back.
     
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    Perriquine On hiatus Past Donor

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    "pert near", meaning almost.

    Mundee = Monday

    Greatly confusing when I was a child was the construct of "Mundee Thersdee". meaning Maundy Thursday

    My mother's family are of "Pennsylvania Dutch" extraction, so it makes perfect sense to us when someone says "Go the stairs up and look the door behind" or "Throw me down the stairs my hat".

    My father used to command us to "red up the house" (meaning clean the place because visitors are expected).

    In fact, "up" seems to be a favorite. Attach it to most anything to add further meaning.

    My mother, who was born in a suburb of Detroit, pronounces 'hog' and 'dog' as 'hahg' and 'dahg'. We also say 'ahf' and 'ahn', rather than 'off' and 'on'.

    When answering in the affirmative, we don't say 'yes' unless we're feeling a bit irritable. I wouldn't even call what we say instead an actual word; it's sounds more like a tightly clipped 'ay-uh'. 'Yup' is also common.
     
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    This is pretty accurate where I live:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lW4QvJPT9Rk

    When I first moved here....ya'll was the first thing I picked up and I'm not sure how I managed without it. A most useful word.
     
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    Ahahaha...red up...my Mother, God rest her.

    Red oot, also. I'm going to red oot that cupboard...means to clean it out.

    Square up, means to sort out the money maybe after you've been shopping.

    The word my husband questioned when he first came here is "Gonny". He came in from his Oxford English course and said the foreign students were asking what "gonny" means. It means going to, but it's used frequently and multi purpose. "Gonny do this for me" "Gonny go and get him" Gonny no dae that...

    [video=youtube;8yoOfHfCQ0w]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yoOfHfCQ0w[/video]
     
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    Just north of where I grew up, the Southern Virginians used the Scottish "OO". As in there is a moose in the hoose get it oot. Later I learned that Canadians are either Scottish, or migrated from Virginia.
     
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    Just north of where I grew up, the Southern Virginians used the Scottish "OO". As in there is a moose in the hoose get it oot. Later I learned that Canadians are either Scottish, or migrated from Virginia.
     
  12. Viv

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    Yes, a lot of French Canadians also.

    I know loads and loads of people in Canada. The migration has tailed off in recent years and the preferred destination seems to be Australia now, but places like Toronto are full of Scots and even some of the buildings there are similar to buildings here.

    People used to migrate to US, but you closed the door to ordinary people and only let in those you consider to be worthy, i.e. academics et al.
     
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    Hey Hahwahya? Well I am from New England...Boston to be exact, so we drop our "R's" and can generally sound like uneducated, abrasive bullies (but not as bad as Noo Yawk). But I love it. We use "wicked" alot (and "whacked" if your from Southie)...as in, That is wicked cool! "Khakis" is what we staht the cah with. And we look at the people from the South as "bizah" (odd). Everything is rushed and please dont ask us to repeat anything, we dont have time for that.
     
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    We love Yankee's down here...betterin a bale of cotton and twice as easy to pick!!!
     
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    We say.

    The tide was so high the shaarks et the collards.
     
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    It's usually called just a 'frog strangler'...
     
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    Ah'm fixin' to go to the store'
     
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    "where" takes an "at"; as in "Where are you at?", instead of "Where are you?"
     
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    You people tawk weeuhd.
     
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    We-talks-tidy-round-by-yer,-innit,round-where-I'm-livin'-to,-like!

    S'Proper,-like, no'-like-them-from-over-by-there. They-talks-stupid,-like!

    All the words tend to run into each other.

    Conversations of greeting really do often sound alot like this:
    [video=youtube;TqnxDhc5ByI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqnxDhc5ByI[/video]
     
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    I made a sales call on a boutique and met a lady with a really strong accent. I asked her what her name was and she told me---it sounded like Khreel. I asked her to repeat it. Khreel. I repeated it and she laughed, shook her head and said Khreell. Finally had her write it down. CLAIRE. I felt so silly. She was from Wales.
     
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    Hey, you can't leave out pidgin.. i've got a cpl cuzzins on da big island.. dey know how to talk rite dere.. dey can talk stink with da best, mo bettah than anyone. Pidgin is an art form in hawaii.. not studied exactly in school, but required to cope there.
     
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    Yeah well, we stuck a fark in interstate farty-far and we're fixin' ta do somethin' about it. Right after I warsh my clothes.
     
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    I can't really think of anything to set the Pasific Northwest apart, liguisticly. N ot even sure there is a regional accent here.
     
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    Lets just say its not my favorite thing about California...it's hella annoying.
     

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