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serious crayons:

--- Quote from: David on February 07, 2008, 05:50:14 am ---If anything it's a Midwestern accent. But I don't have an accent. You have an accent! Everyone else has an accent! We don't talk funny here.
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I've always thought the same, David! :D

And actually, I think that's somewhat objectively true. Actors, actresses, TV news people ... they always sound more Midwestern to me than anything else.

Canadians I think sound very much like Midwesterners, too, except for that "aboot" thing you all have been mentioning. Sometimes I'll be listening to someone on TV and think, "Hold up -- did he just say 'aboot'?" and I'll go look up the person on imdb and sure enough, he's from Canada.

It wasn't until I moved from Minnesota that I realized Minnesotans have an accent. It's that we say "Minnesooootans." Not exactly like the Canadian "aboot" but we say that O with a completely round mouth, in a kind of Scandinavian way, whereas people on the coasts would say something closer to "Minnesoteewwoootons."

David In Indy:

--- Quote from: ineedcrayons on February 08, 2008, 02:19:03 am ---I've always thought the same, David! :D

And actually, I think that's somewhat objectively true. Actors, actresses, TV news people ... they always sound more Midwestern to me than anything else.

Canadians I think sound very much like Midwesterners, too, except for that "aboot" thing you all have been mentioning. Sometimes I'll be listening to someone on TV and think, "Hold up -- did he just say 'aboot'?" and I'll go look up the person on imdb and sure enough, he's from Canada.

It wasn't until I moved from Minnesota that I realized Minnesotans have an accent. It's that we say "Minnesooootans." Not exactly like the Canadian "aboot" but we say that O with a completely round mouth, in a kind of Scandinavian way, whereas people on the coasts would say something closer to "Minnesoteewwoootons."

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Katherine, in all fairness since you joked about the Minnesota accent I will joke about mine (By the way, I dated a guy from Minnesota and I thought his accent was quite cute. His name was Tyler. But I digress...)

In Indiana, we say "poosh" instead of push. And we say "deesh" instead of dish. Fish is "feesh". Door is "dow". You get the idea. A magazine subscription is often a magazine "perscription" around here. Not "prescription", it's "PERscription". (That's just bad English). And yes, everyone from Kokomo southward says "ya'll" and "fixin'" as in "fixin' to go run some errands".

Another strange thing we do here, and I didn't even realize it was strange until I worked in retail 20 years ago, is to give people directions using compass points, rather than "turn left" or "turn right". We'll tell folks to "head west on 71st street for 2 miles and then turn south on Keystone avenue". Nobody around here thinks anything of it, but if we say it to an out of towner... WOW!! They will give us confused and often angry looks! :laugh:

forsythia12:
well if ennis was from canada he'd say "eh?" instead of "huh?"
lol
i've never heard the difference in how we canadians say "about", but i guess it's true 'cause americans can pick up that i'm from canada; however, i've been told i also have a minnesota accent, 'cause my dad's from there, so i took on some of his "lingo" however, i don't say "ruff" for roof, and "crik" for "creek"
lol
but yes,..........yes , i say "eh".

serious crayons:

--- Quote from: David on February 08, 2008, 02:22:48 am ---Minnesota is anther place where they sound like their noses are all stuffed up!! :laugh:
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So you're sayeed dad because I'b a Biddesooddad I talk fuddy?

:laugh:

--- Quote from: forsythia12 on February 08, 2008, 05:47:08 am ---well if ennis was from canada he'd say "eh?" instead of "huh?"
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Oh yeah! I forgot about "eh?"

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