Well, when I see "bayg" I think of the southern thing -- making a one-sylable word into two -- bay-g. I don't do that. I'm just all nasally. Still, in my head, bag and vague are similar -- not exactly the same, but similar.
Dag = the nickname of a friend of mine.
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When I first moved south I had a difficult time distiguising "a" from "o." Example -- I was supposed to look up a person whose last name was Hawley. But the way I heard it was "Howly" and I could not find him in the directly. I finally figured it out.
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Posted 25 January 2007 - 12:46 PM
"Dag" is also slang like "dang". It was also the name of a very excellent NC band.
"We were listening to the UNC radio (station) there and they were playing an R.E.M. song. I like R.E.M. fine, but at the end of it, the DJ says, 'Ya that was R.E.M., the sound of the new South'. I looked at my roommate and we said, Gawd, if that's the sound of the new South, I preferred it when it was on the skids. That's how we got the name."
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Okay, I had forgotten about 'mag'...could be because I haven't seen one in forever.
Everything keeps coming around to poo around here lately...sheep poo. Got it.
I have this mental pic of you right now with a face comprised mainly of nostril, Bizzers. :D
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Everything keeps coming around to poo around here lately...sheep poo. Got it.
I have this mental pic of you right now with a face comprised mainly of nostril, Bizzers. :D
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I have this mental pic of you right now with a face comprised mainly of nostril, Bizzers. :D
I have a very small, up-turned nose, actually.
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When I first moved south I had a difficult time distiguising "a" from "o." Example -- I was supposed to look up a person whose last name was Hawley. But the way I heard it was "Howly" and I could not find him in the directly. I finally figured it out.
The maintenance guy for my last apartment told me to tell management to replace my fridge - he said "tell them Hurl said so". Well, that's what I heard anyway, even after he repeated his name for me, so I wrote them an email telling them that "Hurl" said I should get a new fridge. They wrote back telling me that they've got one for me and "Harold" should be around soon to install it. There's no way I could have got "Harold" from the way he pronounced his name.
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Have I brought up that in upstate New York people say "el-eh-men-TARRY" for grammar school?
It's elemenchry. Come on.
It's elemenchry. Come on.
Some kind of singing. They sound like all kinds of people, right? And then it says another child is born in India every time you call this number, right? Does that make any sense to you?
And the guy that spoke--I don't know who he is. But that--it doesn't sound like no answering machine, right?
And the guy that spoke--I don't know who he is. But that--it doesn't sound like no answering machine, right?
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<table style="width: 320px; border: 1px solid gray; font: normal 12px arial, verdana, sans-serif; background-color: white;"><tr><td colspan="2" style="background: white; color: black; padding: 5px;"><b style="font: bold 20px 'Times New Roman', serif; display: block; margin-bottom: 8px;">What American accent do you have?</b> <div style="font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 4px;">Your Result: <b>North Central</b></div><div style="width: 200px; background: white; border: 1px solid black;"><div style="width: 86%; background: red; font-size: 8px; line-height: 8px;"> </div></div><p style="margin: 10px; border: none; background: white; color: black;">"North Central" is what professional linguists call the Minnesota accent. If you saw "Fargo" you probably didn't think the characters sounded very out of the ordinary. Outsiders probably mistake you for a Canadian a lot.</p></td></tr><tr><td style="color: black; background: white; padding: 3px;">The West</td><td style="background: white; padding: 3px;"><div style="width: 100px; background: white; border: 1px solid black; margin-top: 4px;"><div style="width: 80%; background: red; font-size: 8px; line-height: 8px;"> </div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="color: black; background: white; padding: 3px;">The Midland</td><td style="background: white; padding: 3px;"><div style="width: 100px; background: white; border: 1px solid black; margin-top: 4px;"><div style="width: 75%; background: red; font-size: 8px; line-height: 8px;"> </div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="color: black; background: white; padding: 3px;">Boston</td><td style="background: white; padding: 3px;"><div style="width: 100px; background: white; border: 1px solid black; margin-top: 4px;"><div style="width: 63%; background: red; font-size: 8px; line-height: 8px;"> </div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="color: black; background: white; padding: 3px;">The Inland North</td><td style="background: white; padding: 3px;"><div style="width: 100px; background: white; border: 1px solid black; margin-top: 4px;"><div style="width: 33%; background: red; font-size: 8px; line-height: 8px;"> </div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="color: black; background: white; padding: 3px;">Philadelphia</td><td style="background: white; padding: 3px;"><div style="width: 100px; background: white; border: 1px solid black; margin-top: 4px;"><div style="width: 13%; background: red; font-size: 8px; line-height: 8px;"> </div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="color: black; background: white; padding: 3px;">The South</td><td style="background: white; padding: 3px;"><div style="width: 100px; background: white; border: 1px solid black; margin-top: 4px;"><div style="width: 12%; background: red; font-size: 8px; line-height: 8px;"> </div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="color: black; background: white; padding: 3px;">The Northeast</td><td style="background: white; padding: 3px;"><div style="width: 100px; background: white; border: 1px solid black; margin-top: 4px;"><div style="width: 9%; background: red; font-size: 8px; line-height: 8px;"> </div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" style="text-align: center; padding: 8px;"><a href="http://www.gotoquiz.com/what_american_accent_do_you_have"><b>What American accent do you have?</b></a><br><a href="http://www.gotoquiz.com/">Quiz Created on GoToQuiz</a></td></tr></table>
Definite Sconny/Minnesota/Yooper accent hybrid around here. (Although Fargo exaggerated it a bit, in parts, IMO.) Fish fry Fridays at the bar have sometimes proven unintelliglble to outsiders, though. :p
Me, too.
Definite Sconny/Minnesota/Yooper accent hybrid around here. (Although Fargo exaggerated it a bit, in parts, IMO.) Fish fry Fridays at the bar have sometimes proven unintelliglble to outsiders, though. :p
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I do.
Me, too.
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Have I brought up that in upstate New York people say "el-eh-men-TARRY" for grammar school?
No, but I have heard that particular pronunciation used recently. I had to gather myself and go around the corner to laugh.
"We were listening to the UNC radio (station) there and they were playing an R.E.M. song. I like R.E.M. fine, but at the end of it, the DJ says, 'Ya that was R.E.M., the sound of the new South'. I looked at my roommate and we said, Gawd, if that's the sound of the new South, I preferred it when it was on the skids. That's how we got the name."
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<table style="width: 320px; border: 1px solid gray; font: normal 12px arial, verdana, sans-serif; background-color: white;"><tr><td colspan="2" style="background: white; color: black; padding: 5px;"><b style="font: bold 20px 'Times New Roman', serif; display: block; margin-bottom: 8px;">What American accent do you have?</b> <div style="font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 4px;">Your Result: <b>The West</b></div><div style="width: 200px; background: white; border: 1px solid black;"><div style="width: 96%; background: red; font-size: 8px; line-height: 8px;"> </div></div><p style="margin: 10px; border: none; background: white; color: black;">Your accent is the lowest common denominator of American speech. Unless you're a SoCal surfer, no one thinks you have an accent. And really, you may not even be from the West at all, you could easily be from Florida or one of those big Southern cities like Dallas or Atlanta.</p></td></tr><tr><td style="color: black; background: white; padding: 3px;">The Midland</td><td style="background: white; padding: 3px;"><div style="width: 100px; background: white; border: 1px solid black; margin-top: 4px;"><div style="width: 95%; background: red; font-size: 8px; line-height: 8px;"> </div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="color: black; background: white; padding: 3px;">Boston</td><td style="background: white; padding: 3px;"><div style="width: 100px; background: white; border: 1px solid black; margin-top: 4px;"><div style="width: 75%; background: red; font-size: 8px; line-height: 8px;"> </div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="color: black; background: white; padding: 3px;">North Central</td><td style="background: white; padding: 3px;"><div style="width: 100px; background: white; border: 1px solid black; margin-top: 4px;"><div style="width: 73%; background: red; font-size: 8px; line-height: 8px;"> </div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="color: black; background: white; padding: 3px;">The Inland North</td><td style="background: white; padding: 3px;"><div style="width: 100px; background: white; border: 1px solid black; margin-top: 4px;"><div style="width: 33%; background: red; font-size: 8px; line-height: 8px;"> </div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="color: black; background: white; padding: 3px;">Philadelphia</td><td style="background: white; padding: 3px;"><div style="width: 100px; background: white; border: 1px solid black; margin-top: 4px;"><div style="width: 27%; background: red; font-size: 8px; line-height: 8px;"> </div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="color: black; background: white; padding: 3px;">The South</td><td style="background: white; padding: 3px;"><div style="width: 100px; background: white; border: 1px solid black; margin-top: 4px;"><div style="width: 27%; background: red; font-size: 8px; line-height: 8px;"> </div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="color: black; background: white; padding: 3px;">The Northeast</td><td style="background: white; padding: 3px;"><div style="width: 100px; background: white; border: 1px solid black; margin-top: 4px;"><div style="width: 21%; background: red; font-size: 8px; line-height: 8px;"> </div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" style="text-align: center; padding: 8px;"><a href="http://www.gotoquiz.com/what_american_accent_do_you_have"><b>What American accent do you have?</b></a><br><a href="http://www.gotoquiz.com/">Quiz Created on GoToQuiz</a></td></tr></table>
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Definite Sconny/Minnesota/Yooper accent hybrid around here. (Although Fargo exaggerated it a bit, in parts, IMO.) Fish fry Fridays at the bar have sometimes proven unintelliglble to outsiders, though. :p
I am surprised I didn't have more North Central, but I am lacking the yooper part of the accent. The first week I lived in central Wisconsin I was at the post office. There was some old man talking to the postmaster and I could not understand a damn thing he was saying. I figured he was from the "old country." But the longer I was there I realized he had the backwoods Sconnie accent. And Fargo was about 500 times funnier when I lived Up Nort'.
But, Mary, do you say "bubbler" or "stop-and-go light"?
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No, but I have heard that particular pronunciation used recently. I had to gather myself and go around the corner to laugh.
Do you drink sweet tea?
I once lost a job because I wouldn't accept a glass and it offended the guy.
Some kind of singing. They sound like all kinds of people, right? And then it says another child is born in India every time you call this number, right? Does that make any sense to you?
And the guy that spoke--I don't know who he is. But that--it doesn't sound like no answering machine, right?
And the guy that spoke--I don't know who he is. But that--it doesn't sound like no answering machine, right?
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Sweet tea is vile.
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Sweet tea is vile.
I've also heard southerners say ch'all instead of y'all instead of you. Confirm?
And "billfols" instead of "billfolds" meaning wallet.
Some kind of singing. They sound like all kinds of people, right? And then it says another child is born in India every time you call this number, right? Does that make any sense to you?
And the guy that spoke--I don't know who he is. But that--it doesn't sound like no answering machine, right?
And the guy that spoke--I don't know who he is. But that--it doesn't sound like no answering machine, right?
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I've also heard southerners say ch'all instead of y'all instead of you. Confirm?
And "billfols" instead of "billfolds" meaning wallet.
And "billfols" instead of "billfolds" meaning wallet.
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I could definitely see billfols instead of billfods.
Yeah, dropping consonants is pretty common. Never heard ch'all, though.
I'd never had sweet iced tea until I came to NC, but I gotta say, it's pretty refreshing when it's 95F and humid outside.
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But, Mary, do you say "bubbler" or "stop-and-go light"?
I'm not Mary but I once had a co-worker from Rhode Island who refered to the water cooler as a "bubbler".
"We were listening to the UNC radio (station) there and they were playing an R.E.M. song. I like R.E.M. fine, but at the end of it, the DJ says, 'Ya that was R.E.M., the sound of the new South'. I looked at my roommate and we said, Gawd, if that's the sound of the new South, I preferred it when it was on the skids. That's how we got the name."
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Do you drink sweet tea?
Yes, I do.
"We were listening to the UNC radio (station) there and they were playing an R.E.M. song. I like R.E.M. fine, but at the end of it, the DJ says, 'Ya that was R.E.M., the sound of the new South'. I looked at my roommate and we said, Gawd, if that's the sound of the new South, I preferred it when it was on the skids. That's how we got the name."
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