accents/dialects

["Black Bob" Craufurd]

I cant post in the backroom so I just wanted to throw in that one of the most wicked accents/dialects I've heard was in New Orleans. I dont know whether it was Cajun or Creole, maybe someone can tell me the difference. The city is not pronounced "New-Or-le-ans" nor "New-Or-leens", but rather "Naw'lins" by the locals. When I first arrived on a hot August day, I stopped by a gas station to get something to drink. I set a soda on the counter and the old guy working there looked at me and said "sickahsehn'..." I stared at him for a moment and again he said "sickahsehn'..." I then grinned and realized he was saying sixty cents. Great city, had lots of fun there.

[IrishMike]

Come to Kentucky for some wicked accents. Especially a rual area. Its a whole new language... "I heerd dem boys geot em a 10 pointer. Yup, sawed it with mine own eyes, biggest deer in the whole group of dem deers. Well he gonna git it mounted. Yup, already done did it, he ain't playin around with no nothing about her."

Just a small example of everyday talk. (I live in a city so I don't talk like that btw.)

["Black Bob" Craufurd]

Heh, yeah that's similiar to the West Virginia accent. I just thought that the Cajun/Creole was an interesting accent/dialect. I knew a guy from Kentucky that had a thick accent/dialect. Virginians actually have some words that sound different like "out". Cant really explain it on here for what it sounds like though. The "u" part is very pronounced if that makes sense.

[InsaneApache]

Eyup lad, th'as nowt like ' park'lin grumpet....nah then


.....I'll de-code l8r

["Black Bob" Craufurd]

Hehe wow, I have no idea what that means. My mother was from London area, but that must be Northern?

My father was from Oregon and I grew up in Virginia. I ended up with absolutely no accent/dialect. lol

[Kaiser of Arabia]

I'm from freakin NJ and I understood that!
of course I got family from VA/WVA and I got Southern Blood.

[Gregoshi]

I'm of Pennsylvania Dutch (Deutch = German) blood and my grandparents spoke the language. Alas, my dad only learned how to understand it and I picked up none of it. Anyway, the Pennsylvania Dutch speak with an unusual accent in which "V" sounds like "W", "J" sounds like "CH", and so on. It can have some funny results, like "garage" comes out almost sounding like "crotch" and "Abe" (as in Lincoln) sounds like "Ape". I actually found a book which teaches you how to speak "dutch-ified" English. As with speaking the language, my Dad has a little bit of the accent and (un?)fortunately I have no trace of it.


I did a bit of searching on the internet for audio samples of how the Pennsylvania Dutch sound when they speak. I had little luck...until I remembered Raymond the Amish Comic. Now the Amish and Pennsylvania Dutch are different groups, but they are close in their speaking patterns. So here's the link the Raymond's website: http://www.amishcomic.com/media.shtml You can find a sampling of how Amish/PA Dutch sounds on this media page of his site. It is a phone interview of Raymond done by an Ohio radio station and it is quite funny. One comment: Raymond's accent seems to be toned down a bit, perhaps to be a little more understandable to the general public. How can an audience get the joke if they don't understand what is being said? Anyway, you can pick up the "V" sounding like a "W". A note about the Amish: if you've seen the movie "Witness" with Harrison Ford/Kelly McGinnis or "For Richer or Poorer" with Tim Allen/Kirsty Alley, then you have seen at least a little of the Amish culture. No cars (horse-drawn buggies!), electricity, phones, plumbing etc. Fortunately for me, the Pennsylvania Dutch have no such restrictions or I would n't be posting this!

[Goofball]

Newfoundland. Enough said...

[lancelot]

Eyup lad, th'as nowt like ' park'lin grumpet....nah then


.....I'll de-code l8r

Hey there, boy, there is nothing like (have no idea).....is there

Is that about right? What better proof that the north is a different country!! Damn yokels!!