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Originally Posted by olyve
Originally Posted by Mellowicious
It terrifies me that I'm following most of this...
me too! shocked
but then..... rolleyes

icetaters = irish potatoes

bangsu = bathing suit

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icetaters must be a georgia thang. in the mountains of arkansas they say arshpotatos. if you follow the idioms of southern regions, especially here in NC, you will largely find yourself staring at a line back to the language's scotch-irish roots. i believe in NC we have seven separate dialects, each affected by the region of the UK that settled in there. for example, although and sadly growing extinct, there is the Hatteras brogue that at first sounds like cockney or even australian to some. the area was settled largely by seafaring men and women from the likes of bristol or plymouth and the dialect bares resemblance. go to the appalachians in western NC where the scotch and irish laborers settled and you get a different accent, different terms etc., along with its unique historical association. in the more educated regions, such as, say raleigh, the accent is more subdued largely because of the education factory, but there are still elements of the unique sounds that make up the Southern accent.


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Spent a week in a hostel in London many years back. Landlady was strictly Cockney and I couldn't understand a word she said all week long!


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Originally Posted by loganrbt
Spent a week in a hostel in London many years back. Landlady was strictly Cockney and I couldn't understand a word she said all week long!
in a hostel in dover my wife and i visited with a very old man who was cockney. he spent thirty minutes trying to, as far as i could make out, tell us about his time as a japanese pow. whatever the case, after about ten minutes, i gave up asking him to repeat everything and spent twenty minutes politely nodding and smiling.


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Originally Posted by 2wins
whatever the case, after about ten minutes, i gave up asking him to repeat everything and spent twenty minutes politely nodding and smiling.
I do the same thing with my Swiss-German-speaking in-laws...they think I'm a great listener! cool


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Originally Posted by 2wins
icetaters must be a georgia thang. in the mountains of arkansas they say arshpotatos. if you follow the idioms of southern regions, especially here in NC, you will largely find yourself staring at a line back to the language's scotch-irish roots. i believe in NC we have seven separate dialects, each affected by the region of the UK that settled in there. for example, although and sadly growing extinct, there is the Hatteras brogue that at first sounds like cockney or even australian to some. the area was settled largely by seafaring men and women from the likes of bristol or plymouth and the dialect bares resemblance. go to the appalachians in western NC where the scotch and irish laborers settled and you get a different accent, different terms etc., along with its unique historical association. in the more educated regions, such as, say raleigh, the accent is more subdued largely because of the education factory, but there are still elements of the unique sounds that make up the Southern accent.
actually the arshtaters is more like country folk say it here too, 2wins. I got that from a New York friend who was a roommate of my ex while in school here. They used to go out and help an old lady cut wood, etc after her husband died and she would always feed them. He came in one day shaking his head trying to figure out what 'icetaters' and 'rosnears' were.
So lol that's the Yankee pronunciation of country southern Georgia.

My friend from England lives in northern England and sounds very Scottish to me. I have to listen closely to her to catch everything.
Oddly when she first came for a visit and met me in person and several other people from across the country (internet buddies we were smile ), she said my accent is the one she thought sounded the most 'American'. Go figure.
Yes I tawk suthern.

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2wins, I don't meant to get all politically correct here but Scotch is whiskey or tape, Scots are people from Scotland and Scots-Irish are Scots who migrated from Scotland to Ireland before migrating here. I know "Scotch Irish" is the common usage here in America but I don't believe that makes it any more correct. Google will verify this for you.


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Originally Posted by Greger
2wins, I don't meant to get all politically correct here but Scotch is whiskey or tape, Scots are people from Scotland and Scots-Irish are Scots who migrated from Scotland to Ireland before migrating here. I know "Scotch Irish" is the common usage here in America but I don't believe that makes it any more correct. Google will verify this for you.

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Ay chummy, caint unnastan fokes levin inna south. They tawk wicked bad an ben number than a pounded hake.
I ben levin he-ah down east nye onto foty sex ye-ahs uppin Roostik Cownty an pickin tatuhs awlatime. Ayuh, Down Maine thuh rodes so fah apott you caint get theyuh frum heyuh. We goan downta Bah Hobba fur chowduh annul cum back puffed up like uh toad sculpin.



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it's scary, it, but i understood that.


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