Americans Speak English Totally Differently

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piperbarb

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jdeg said:
pft, no one in West Virginia says "you guys!"

I recognize the similarities between South Jersey/Philly and how different that is from North Jersey/New York though. hah!

Except this one: 22 Maps That Show The Deepest Linguistic Conflicts In America - Business Insider
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And if you are from the metro-New York area, you stand "on line" not "in line." There are times my students say I "speak funny." I try to explain to them that geographic regions have different ways of saying things and and use different phrases. To show you how different people sound in the U.S., my mother was raised in Manhattan and my father was raised in Brooklyn. You could really hear the difference in their accents.

My spousal unit says, "punkin". When I asked him how he spelled it, he said, "p-u-mp-k-i-n." He grew up in an area of North Eastern PA that is often referred to as Pennsyltucky because a lot of people who settled there came from Kentucky, West Virginia, and the surrounding area. He even has some "mountain twang" as I call it. The migrated to get out of the coal mines.
 
Michael J.

Michael J.

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I think it's interesting do know something about language and how it is used by different people of the same language.


I am confronted with that every day when people ask me about some words they heard. I am learning lots of words right now on this board. The most word I saw was Gator - never listened before or hub and so on.

Keep posting and I will one time speak as same as all of you LOL
 
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Don Kuykendall_RIP

RIP :(
My wife is an English teacher so we discus language quite often in our house. Also she was born in Up State New York and I am from Alabama. She has been down south since she was 12 but she is still a yankee.
 
Roy1961

Roy1961

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there is about 10 different accents in Belfast alone, I was raised about a mile from my wife and we both speak differently, everyone understands her here, they ask me if I speak English.:D
 
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mauckcg

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piperbarb said:
And if you are from the metro-New York area, you stand "on line" not "in line." There are times my students say I "speak funny." I try to explain to them that geographic regions have different ways of saying things and and use different phrases. To show you how different people sound in the U.S., my mother was raised in Manhattan and my father was raised in Brooklyn. You could really hear the difference in their accents.

My spousal unit says, "punkin". When I asked him how he spelled it, he said, "p-u-mp-k-i-n." He grew up in an area of North Eastern PA that is often referred to as Pennsyltucky because a lot of people who settled there came from Kentucky, West Virginia, and the surrounding area. He even has some "mountain twang" as I call it. The migrated to get out of the coal mines.
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Which is funny, I'm in western Pennsylvania and i refer to where I am at as Pennsyltuckey, especially how close we are to hoopies from West Virginia.

Funny thing about Pittsburgh, how do you get "yinz" from "you guys"?
 
Whiskeyman

Whiskeyman

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mauckcg said:
Which is funny, I'm in western Pennsylvania and i refer to where I am at as Pennsyltuckey, especially how close we are to hoopies from West Virginia.

Funny thing about Pittsburgh, how do you get "yinz" from "you guys"?
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I believe that it's derived from "you uns", which is from "you ones", ya'll hear!:D "Yinz" is a phrase that a good friend from North Carolina uses all the time.
 
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Don Kuykendall_RIP

RIP :(
This is a quote from one of the great Southern Humorists Lewis Grizzard about southern speech

“In the south there’s a difference between ‘Naked’ and ‘Nekkid.’ ‘Naked’ means you don’t have any clothes on. Nekkid’ means you don’t have any clothes on … and you’re up to somethin!”

Now that is Southern
 
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Alan

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I have lived in many parts of the US and worked in many more. There are always little things. A few examples seem in order so here goes, Some folks in Western PA have a Mum as a Mom, In Buffalo NY you don't get store ads you get slingers. In areas of Indiana you don't have shopping carts you have buggies. Here in Central PA because of the large German influence there are many accents and sayings such as "the weatherman wants rain tonight". They also switch the W and V at the beginning of words such as Vell and Wery. It's always fun to visit new areas and learn new words :cool:
 
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