About the only Southern accent feature I have is that I can say that correctly, and use it regularly to indicate the second person plural.
(Hey, it's not my fault that "thou" was obsoleted at some point in Early Modern English and "you" came to indicate the singular second person pronoun as well.)
About the only Southern accent feature I have is that I can say that correctly, and use it regularly to indicate the second person plural.
(Hey, it's not my fault that "thou" was obsoleted at some point in Early Modern English and "you" came to indicate the singular second person pronoun as well.)
I have no idea if I have an accent, but I'll say y'all all damn day.
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you sound pissed
american pissed that is, not british pissed
where do you people stand on "bolth"
There was a time in my life where I started describing things as "Fucking bomb."
It started out ironically, and then I just couldn't stop.
My friends were forced to give me an intervention.
edit: also apparently I have a philly accent!
The cot-caught merger is one of the defining features of American accents.
What do you think about father-bother?
Also, do you say your 'r's in words like hard, water, park, etc?
No need to shorten it
aside from the enjoyable scene in RvB, there's no fucking L in both
father and bother rhyme
and yes, i pronounce the Rs in all of those words
Also, this is why 'mericans will name their kid Carrie but spell it Kerry
http://www.sendspace.com/file/exf1bt
with a heart instead of a dot
I have a friend who says bolth
I've made fun of him for it so often that the L is starting to disappear
today in class my full-of-himself polisci professor let out of a loud BOLTH in the middle of a rant/lecture and the both of us burst out laughing
Mairwy marwy mehwy
tee hee hee
Interesting.
I am going to be honest and say I've never heard caught pronounced that way before. Which makes sense, of course, but still.
No no how on earth do you crazy people pronounce your Ws
you are worse than Hitler
i know there's a difference between bag and egg
i was trying to capture the essence of meissnerd's accent when pronouncing bag by comparing it to egg
http://www.freewebs.com/volucrisusaedrius/marycollar.wav
About the only Southern accent feature I have is that I can say that correctly, and use it regularly to indicate the second person plural.
(Hey, it's not my fault that "thou" was obsoleted at some point in Early Modern English and "you" came to indicate the singular second person pronoun as well.)
But I guess he's still american in many ways
man I didn't know
your voice just had such conviction in it
shit, this is fascinating
I should take some classes
Yeah, I spent about 3 hours reading about dialectal differences on wikipedia one afternoon
I need to learn how to pronounce all those crazy symbols first I guess
This is actually intensely interesting! How can people not hear the difference between house as a verb and house as a noun?
do you also stick two thumbs behind your belt and thrust your hips forward when you say it
I have no idea if I have an accent, but I'll say y'all all damn day.
Interesting. The "father-bother" merger is another Americanism (ask Mori, he'd probably say both with the same vowel).
I asked about the last 3 because of this, and it sounds like you don't really say the 'r's in "hard" and "water" but it was kind of there in "park".
at no great name
to house a group of immigrants (how-zz)
a group of immigrants in my house (how-ss)
what do you mean what
I quite often say grass, etc., with a very short a instead of 'grarse', which I used to say, too
Also, Mori did a recording:
http://www.flyingstove.com/rachel/mori.wav
And yeah, he pronounces father-bother the same way. It's really odd because I can't imagine how it'd sound until he says it.
get a mic
go to the recorder found in any windows OS
begin