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Where I live people occasionally say "you're not from around here".

When I go back to Missouri people occasionally say "you're not from around here".

So I've concluded; I just talk funny.
 
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No accent here. But being from Buffalo means we have the ability to mimic everybody else :D
 
I've been told by people that I have a mid western accent.May be because I pronounce my Rs unlike the locals here
 
I never had an accent until I started working for weeks at a time in Arkansas. I'd come back and be twanging my ass off for a few days. I noticed that if you get 20 miles south of St Louis, the southern accent starts.
 
Oldgeek said:
I never had an accent until I started working for weeks at a time in Arkansas. I'd come back and be twanging my ass off for a few days. I noticed that if you get 20 miles south of St Louis, the southern accent starts.
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Yea I'm about 70-80 miles. I didn't even realize it. It's nothing like southern Missouri. Those Hoosiers can barely be understood. Lol
 
Everyone has "something" in the way of linguistics; not just accents. It's not just how you would pronounce a word or phrase, "you all, yall, yous". But also what you would call something, "soda, pop, coke" or even things like in New England, mostly MA and RI, a water fountain is called a bubbler or bubbla and in the Mid-Atlantic the night before Halloween is called mischief night.
 
Well, that's odd. Lol didn't know I was so damn southern.
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shovelpass said:
Everyone has "something" in the way of linguistics; not just accents. It's not just how you would pronounce a word or phrase, "you all, yall, yous". But also what you would call something, "soda, pop, coke" or even things like in New England, mostly MA and RI, a water fountain is called a bubbler or bubbla and in the Mid-Atlantic the night before Halloween is called mischief night.
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I think it's funny how a lot of people think there is a right way to say something and never drop it. There's no wrong way to say caramel or syrup. It doesn't matter if you say soda or pop.
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http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/12/20/sunday-review/dialect-quiz-map.html?_r=0

This is a dialect quiz, it is a 25 question quiz that can determine which region your dialect is similar to an least similar to.
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I got Chattanooga and Knoxville... guess it makes sense I'm about a 100 miles north of Knoxville. I don't want to sound like a Volunteer though.
 
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Yes I might sound like a deeper version of good mix between Forest Gump & Katt Williams at the same time:LOL:
 
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LazyWinker said:
I think it's funny how a lot of people think there is a right way to say something and never drop it. There's no wrong way to say caramel or syrup. It doesn't matter if you say soda or pop.

I got Chattanooga and Knoxville... guess it makes sense I'm about a 100 miles north of Knoxville. I don't want to sound like a Volunteer though.
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I generally assume that the way I pronounce things is correct, but I also know that I know nothing. What does a Volunteer sound like?
 
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I live in Oklahoma. I have a southern drawl. Which is awesome because I grew up in an Indian household.
 
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I generally assume that the way I pronounce things is correct, but I also know that I know nothing. What does a Volunteer sound like?
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A volunteer is someone from Tennessee. I don't even know if I can distinguish accents from each other. Southern people tend to just talk with a slower cadence than city slickers.

Angry Ram said:
I live in Oklahoma. I have a southern drawl. Which is awesome because I grew up in an Indian household.
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Are you Indian from India or American Indian? If you don't mind me asking.
 
Someone should dig up the dialect test that was working it's way around the webernets a few years ago. It was a series of questions about how you pronounced words, or what words you used to describe something, like lightning bug versus firefly.

I actually works and will drill you down to the area you are from. A friend of mine lived in Philly and Sat Lake City equally as she was growing up and it even got that right in that it picked both of the areas.

Hopefully someone can find it or recalls what it was called. It's really cool....
 
Just to be "that Guy" but there is a difference in "Carmel" and "caramel". I actually did research on this for a paper in school. Caramel is the sugar/cream mixture. Carmel is what (I believe the company was Worthers, but it's been a lot of years.) Worthers called the Caramel flavored soft chews that they were making. They were insanely popular and because they tasted like caramel people just started using the word "Carmel"




Just a tidbit, should prolly go in the "Did you know" thread. Lol
But I'm not that guy that will argue with someone about the way to say something tho, I just thought it was interesting how it came about.
 
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