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[Romulus111VADT]

I've lived in Florida and traveled all over the east coast clear to Maine. I seem to have picked up accents from the entire east coast. My wife says I'm a southern Yankee. I can talk with a New England accent that drives her mad and have fun mocking her southern bell accent. Her best one is when she tries to say the word, "Hills". It sounds like she's saying, "Heels".

The one that kills me is the word "Blub" as in "Light Bulb". This one dude said he was going to have to get a new "BUB". I said "A what?", Frustrated, he says, "A bub, you know, a bub, a light bub, for my car, a headlight bub." I about lost it lmao......

[Mushroom_Farmer]

The one that kills me is the word "Blub" as in "Light Bulb". This one dude said he was going to have to get a new "BUB". I said "A what?", Frustrated, he says, "A bub, you know, a bub, a light bub, for my car, a headlight bub." I about lost it lmao......

 Oh man! At a place where I once worked there was this one guy from West Virginia that would ask for a 'bub'. The first time he came in I thought "wtf is a bub?" I finally got it after he said he wanted a light bub.
 There was another guy from South Africa who would ask for a 'globe.'
 Then there was this other guy from Luthiania that I never could understand, so I just nodded and smiled to him.

[H]

The one that kills me is the word "Blub" as in "Light Bulb". This one dude said he was going to have to get a new "BUB". I said "A what?", Frustrated, he says, "A bub, you know, a bub, a light bub, for my car, a headlight bub." I about lost it lmao......

Their are specific dialectual differences just in New England.

Some Mainiacs as well as a few Rhode Islanders enunciate, "Well, you go down the rud a piece..." :-?

One uncle sometimes has "pooched eggs" for breakfast.
"Um, OK, Uncle. So, which dog did you get them from?"

On the other side of the family, an aunt "had sandridges for lunch."
Sounds a bit gritty.

Someone will have to tell me how you Brits pronounce hoof and roof; is the vowel sound as that in foot (the way my grandmother pronounced roof) or more like the Cymric 'w' (my grandmother's pronunciation in hoof and hooves)?

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[Romulus111VADT]

The one that kills me is the word "Blub" as in "Light Bulb". This one dude said he was going to have to get a new "BUB". I said "A what?", Frustrated, he says, "A bub, you know, a bub, a light bub, for my car, a headlight bub." I about lost it lmao......

Their are specific dialectual differences just in New England.

Some Mainiacs as well as a few Rhode Islanders enunciate, "Well, you go down the rud a piece..." :-?

One uncle sometimes has "pooched eggs" for breakfast.
"Um, OK, Uncle. So, which dog did you get them from?"

On the other side of the family, an aunt "had sandridges for lunch."
Sounds a bit gritty.

Someone will have to tell me how you Brits pronounce hoof and roof; is the vowel sound as that in foot (the way my grandmother pronounced roof) or more like the Cymric 'w' (my grandmother's pronunciation in hoof and hooves)?

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I remember one woman in a McDonald's in West Lebanon, NH was listening to me discuss my Uncle and my Aunt and a hunting trip they made out west. She chimed in with, "I thought all you southern people had Ants and not Arnts." I said, "Arnts?!" "WTF is an ARNT?, lmao" She got po'ed and explained it was an "Aunt". I said, "Ok, then what do you call you Uncles, Arncles?" She got very po'ed and asked me if I knew what the letters "FO" meant. I said, "Yes ma'am, Far Out, I was educated back in the 60's"......

[Ravang]

The only thing that gets me mad is that everyone instantly thinks that if you have a Southern accent, your dumb, or some third class citizen...

....I recently visited so folks back north where I used to live, and brought a clip from the show (me and Jamie do the morning news show at school) to show what I'd been up too. Well I'd been around Jamie for a long time and had pretty much gotten use to her accent. Well it was a bit of a shock for my northern friends, and their first comment was "Who's the dumb-a## redneck beside you?" That just about did it, I'm a person who doesn't care if you insult me, but insult my friends and we're going to have a problem. Truth is she knows a lot more than me, gets better grades than me and such, but calling someone you don't even who a dumb-a## just because of they speak different really doesn't make you sound to much smarter. And theres a moral to this story, or there was a moral to this story, but I've forgotten...

[BigTruck]

[quote][quote][quote]I met my best friend in Army JROTC, before we probably never would have said two words to each other... We do pick on each other a lot, me being from 'The North' and her from 'The South', you'd think the Civil War hadn't ended, or no one

[Ravang]

If I even say the word redneck or "we won" around her I get slugged.

I'd rather not think what would happen to me if I told Jamie that...

...I like to stay a visitor in hospitals, not a patient....

[H]

I remember one woman in a McDonald's in West Lebanon, NH was listening to me discuss my Uncle and my Aunt and a hunting trip they made out west. She chimed in with, "I thought all you southern people had Ants and not Arnts." I said, "Arnts?!" "WTF is an ARNT?, lmao" She got po'ed and explained it was an "Aunt". I said, "Ok, then what do you call you Uncles, Arncles?" She got very po'ed and asked me if I knew what the letters "FO" meant. I said, "Yes ma'am, Far Out, I was educated back in the 60's"...

Um, I hope she wasn't a former classmate I need to apologize for -- I know I had at least one of them move up there (Claremont's not far south).

I believe I've told you my discourse on that since "ants" seems to be invading our northeastern dialect like... well, like insects on a rampage.
"My aunts (ahhnts) are with my uncles... ants are sometimes unwanted pests crawling about their ankles."*

*Admittedly, though, there've been times my uncles may have seen a similar relationship.

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