Comments on: Similar to yesterday’s accent rant…

By: Marie

Marie — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 05:38:16 +0000

Growing up we used to go to a cinema in Acton. They always ran an advertisement for a local candy store before the movie and the announcer in the ad mis-pronounced “Concord”, which was the town next door (it’s CONcord, not conCORDE!)
Of course, growing up in Carlisle I hear plenty of garbled pronunciations (car-LIS-lee?)

By: Rana

Rana — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:57:11 +0000

Hoo boy, YES. And it’s not even the smaller regional pronunciations (it’s “Wi-LAH-mit, damnit, not will-aw-met”) but things like Oregon (Ory-gun not O-ree-gone) and Nevada (Neh-VAH-duh, not Ne-VAW-dah). Makes me twitch to hear those mispronounced, and it’s not like either is actually hard to say or even figure out, if you’re paying any attention at all.

By: Jill

Jill — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:08:57 +0000

Sprite, I always said that the Maine accent sort of the second law of thermodynamics for the letter “r.”

“We’re gonna go to the stoah and get some vaniller.”

By: sprite

sprite — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 18:55:20 +0000

You can always tell if someone grew up in the Northeast by which syllable they emphasize in “New Haven.” Hint to producers: It’s the second one.

Also, having grown up halfway between Boston and NYC, we always figured that all the extra “r”‘s that New Yorkers added to things came from ones dropped by Massachusetts speakers.

By: Shane Curcuru

Shane Curcuru — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 15:56:31 +0000

Wicked pissah blog posting ya got here. Thanks!

Reminds me of our description of Spokane, WA when Amy spent some time out there – Spokane is the Worcester of Washington. (I think to really understand that, you have to have lived in MA – although not necessarily Worcester – and visited Spokane).

By: Andrea

Andrea — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 15:55:45 +0000

OH! and do NOT get me started about southern accents.

a) there is more than one
b) the most common one isn’t “the Yankee version of redneck hick”
c)please, for the love of heaven, don’t try to mimic it if you haven’t actually been to the south. It’s wildly insulting.

Bone to pick? Moi????? Whew. Standing down, now.