When I first moved up to Northwest Arkansas, I was surprised how different my southern Arkansas drawl was from the norm up here where I now live. Over the years, I seem to blend in more and lost most of the drawl. When I worked in the 911 dispatch center, my first job at the police department, I started getting hammered by the officers for my radio voice in stressful situations. I became a somewhat popular dispatcher from what I was told because the more stressful the call and the radio traffic, the more bored and calm my voice became, but, apparently the southern drawl returned with a vengeance as priority of the call increased. One time in an incident debriefing we all had to attend after a very long vehicle and foot pursuit, one of the officers commented that having me on the radio during the pursuit was "like listening to Foghorn Leghorn MC an insurance seminar." We were all laughing so hard after he said that we didn't get much accomplished in the debriefing. So, I guess my drawl comes back now and then....lol
Random US accents question......
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That is funny!
I say, well, I say, boy, Foghorn Leghorn is great!
That is funny!I say, well, I say, boy, Foghorn Leghorn is great!
Owen Kyffin You're not a dumb foreigner! There's so many different accents here in the US. I can pick a few out - and since I'm southern, I can almost always tell the difference in a Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama, or Louisiana accent. The Carolinas confuse me, and I'm not sure about Arkansas, but now and forever ghost19 will sound like Foghorn Leghorn in my head .
I wish we could skype so I could hear all of your voices. I hear them a certain way in my head.
I would swear that I don't sound southern, but my northern cousins say I do - most specifically my Chicago family and my South Dakota family. I do say "y'all", and Grandpa , I think you should just start saying it. It'll rub off on others, you might get it started in Colorado.
In trying to find someone who might sound a bit like me, I googled "Memphis Accent" and stumbled upon a slew of youtube videos called "Accent Tag". You'll find several. They're pretty entertaining.
I wish we could skype so I could hear all of your voices. I hear them a certain way in my head.
I would swear that I don't sound southern, but my northern cousins say I do - most specifically my Chicago family and my South Dakota family. I do say "y'all", and Grandpa , I think you should just start saying it. It'll rub off on others, you might get it started in Colorado.
In trying to find someone who might sound a bit like me, I googled "Memphis Accent" and stumbled upon a slew of youtube videos called "Accent Tag". You'll find several. They're pretty entertaining.
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I say, well, I say, boy, Foghorn Leghorn is great!
Personally I think the guys were exaggerating, I've listened to myself on many 911 calls back then and I don't think my drawl was THAT pronounced, but, all it took was that one wise guy cracking the comment about Fog horn Leg horn and it was off to the races after that....lol
Neesy
#1 fan (Annie Wilkes cousin) 1st cousin Mom's side
I noticed that when I met you summer of 2014 - Tracy sounded different from you and I asked her if she was from somewhere else.
You have a great voice - sounds good over the phone, too!
Neesy
#1 fan (Annie Wilkes cousin) 1st cousin Mom's side
A woman on the ferry (going from the Isle of Arran to the mainland of Scotland) was quite snobby to me when I spoke to her. I said to her "I love your accent" and she replied:
"I do not have an accent. I speak the Queen's English" (I wish there was some way I could convey the icicles that were dripping from her words).
biggest snob I ever ran into
I was speechless that anyone could have such a dismissive attitude - not a very friendly person.
Everyone but Neesy and other Canadians would think I was Irish.
Neesy
#1 fan (Annie Wilkes cousin) 1st cousin Mom's side
Might have already told you this, but the first time Andy heard a Newfie accent he said "That guy is a Paddy!"
Yep, I had to argue with a lady here in Edmonton that I was from Newfoundland and not Ireland.....she insisted I was. She was french Canadian so what did she know? lol.....just joking....I think.
Neesy
#1 fan (Annie Wilkes cousin) 1st cousin Mom's side
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My 'fodder' was from Quebec - us kids would get a kick out of hearing him speak French to his brother on the phone. We had a three storey house in Toronto and my Dad would say "I'm going up to the turd floor" - he could not pronounce certain words, either. He would say Horchard Beach instead of Orchard Beach when we lived there, after moving north of T.O.
That sounds familiar. LOL. One of my best friends was from Quebec but he learned English in Newfoundland cause he worked there. He died of AIDS and it broke my heart. I remember once, here in Alberta, he was in hospital. They had a Newfoundland Jigg's dinner on the menu that day. They gave him a scrawy piece of salt meat and he went ballistic. He insisted that it was because he had a french name and they pawned off the worst piece of beef to him. He demanded he wanted some decent piece....and the nurses made sure he got it. We would have some dandy arguments about which cuisine was better...french or Newfie. I could cook both. Michel did prefer the Newfie food though. He admitted it to me lol.
I hearby hijack this thread (until it gets hijacked back) by drawing attention to what a couple of members and me alluded to a little earlier, the interesting and sometimes strange differences in how people say what they say. For instance, I grew up using, instead of the phrase in hospital, in the hospital. I personally had not heard the former phrase prior possibly to my first viewing of Bennie Hill when he was already in reruns. When I lived in Wisconsin I noticed that many sentences inexplicably ended not with a period alone but with hey, and then a period. It occurs to me that in the south, and perhaps elsewhere, sentences are begun with hey and for perhaps the same reason as a sentence should be ended with it; the fundamental difference being to my mind whether in the first case a question is being asked, which is not necessarily the case in the second, which then of course means there mustn't finally be a period but a question mark. Also in Wisconsin the hey was often replaced with and so. In Wisconsin a guy I was working with in the shipyard once handed me an acetylene torch (unlit) and told me to go put this by Roy. I wondered how close to Roy I should put it and whether or not to tell him. In Wisconsin a guy once told me a guy I was working with in the shipyard was describing how a guy he knew was living high as a hog (but again I digress; I think maybe that belongs in the grammar thread).
Does one turn a light switch out or off?
Wow thanks everyone - some fascinating stuff in there.
I would be interessted to know if there are any views on where Owen Wilson's accent hails from.
I am intrigued by folk sounding like they are ffrom Ireland.
Also on the Spanish speakers, I have some romance language knowledeg of French and Italian and can follow Latin American spanish speakers much much more easily than native Spanish speakers because the accent/pronuciation is much easier for me.
P.S. if any one can tell me how to do that "spoiler" thing I would be grateful I was going to insert a rubbish joke into my reply, but needed the spoiler thing to facilitate it!
I would be interessted to know if there are any views on where Owen Wilson's accent hails from.
I am intrigued by folk sounding like they are ffrom Ireland.
Also on the Spanish speakers, I have some romance language knowledeg of French and Italian and can follow Latin American spanish speakers much much more easily than native Spanish speakers because the accent/pronuciation is much easier for me.
P.S. if any one can tell me how to do that "spoiler" thing I would be grateful I was going to insert a rubbish joke into my reply, but needed the spoiler thing to facilitate it!
Spoilers
You can either type in the coding yourself by typing:
[ spoiler ] the words you want hidden followed by [ /spoiler ]
(remove spaces from between the brackets and text)
Or highlight the words you want hidden click the insert button
Spoilers
You can either type in the coding yourself by typing:
[ spoiler ] the words you want hidden followed by [ /spoiler ]
(remove spaces from between the brackets and text)
Or highlight the words you want hidden click the insert button, and select Spoiler.
Thanks for that Flake - useful to know.. I am well used to typing in the code from the rugby forum I use so is there a complete list anywhere of the commands you can use?
In this event it was hardly worth it for the pitiful post I was going to make in connection with my Owen Wilson question:
I was only going to say in connection with Marley and Me i) the dog snuffs it in the end; and ii) given he's a journalist shouldn't it be Marley and I?
Being from the coal region of Eastern Pennsylvania I was once told by a linguist that my accent is a "Yankee" dialect with a blending of German features influenced by Pennsylvania Dutch, and some Slavic superstrata. Don’t know what the hell that means, because I think I sound just fine. 
That's fascinating - I would never have believed it, but I just did a bit of Youtube based research on the Newfoundland accent and it is uncannily close to an Irish accent.
Mind you the largest Welsh speaking community outside of Wales is in Argentina (duw bendithia hwy) so......