Coming from Glasgow it's a good idea to learn how to write quickly 'cause no one understands a bloody thing we say !! it's not so much an accent thing as a completely different dialect so it does sound like another language.
Wullnae = Will not
Didnae = Did not
Gona = Going to
Ser heid = Sore head
I don't have much of an accent. Well, that is a lie as everyone has an accent of some kind, but I don't really have a distinctive regional accent. I spent too much of my childhood moving region to region to ever get set into talking a set way. I suppose if anything my accent is more RP (recieved pronunciation) than anything else. My parents both have distinctive Sussex accents whilst my sister has a Yorkshire inflection. I don't have either but sometimes find my accent responding to whoever I am conversing with at the time.
I honestly never thought I had an accent, until just recently, and that everyone else did. As I have started to meet people from other places in the last year, them laughing at me while I talked and calling me a Yooper, well, that was the first tip off I might in fact have a bit of one.
People in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan have a distinct accent. They call pop, pap, popcorn comes out papcorn,and so on. It is very noticable. And I guess because of our close association to them it has found its way into our accents just from sheer proximity. I have relatives who live not far away, mere miles who are american, and any time I have visited them I couldn't ever not laugh at how rediculous it was. How goofy they sounded.
So now I am travelling more, and talking to people from other places, and the first thing a number of them have done, is laugh and call me a Yooper, a term for an Upper Peninsula person.
People from Buffalo speak a lot like the "Youpers", it can really throw you off
leftylee and tam seddon don't even speak english as far as i'm concerned.. i see their status and stuff on facebook and i seriously don't even understand it.. it may as well be a different language. If i wasn't at work i would be able to post some examples but facebook is blocked on my work network.
i live on the east coast of the states, in RI, and i can happily say that i don't have the typical RI/Boston accent that about 90% of them have. I pronounce my R's.![]()
this is fairly retarded, but a bit accurate if even by accident.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kb9yhhflmvY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4HV4NfgIdc
Last edited by Youngblood; 07-06-2009 at 05:14 PM.
People kinda talk like this where I live, at least people who were born here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GD2X...eature=related
I don't live in prison btw, just an example of the accent
But, there are varying accents you'll hear round here. There's a few older white people who have accents like those in Big H's post, whilst there's also a lot of people with Carribbean & African accents.
But for people my age, it's generally like the video above. That's if they're well spoken![]()
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izHGq4FQ-TQ
like this. but i talk nothing like that.
actually the only person that has ever heard me talk is JTrock on xbox live.
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