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Ok, there are worse places on Earth, but it's not a place I want to settle down.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 16:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Or visit.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 16:39 (seventeen years ago) link

taked = talked

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 16:40 (seventeen years ago) link

people's names be confusing me. hi armando.

http://www.gotoquiz.com/results/what_american_accent_do_you_have
i was primarily west, with midland and boston not too far behind. if midland means midwest, i've lived in all three areas.

― JuliaA (JuliaA), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 16:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Otto -- no, the chicken will cook over the time it's in the crock pot. That's the beauty. When it's done you should be able to shred it easily too, to avoid chunks.

Midland usually means midwest.

Hi Juuuuuuuuuuuuulia.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 16:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Nope, Kevin. You did the right thing putting the chicken in raw.

Just like Amanda said.

I figured Barberton would be a shitpit, but that's probably my bias against small towns in that general are of the country. It was the home of a big time solidarity union movement in the 1930s, didja know?

― jenny (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 16:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, doesn't surprise me. Lotsa factories around there at that time. Not anymore though. My friend's sister lives right "downtown" and it's really cute for about 2.5 minutes, then the charm wears off and you realize that there's nothing there but a diner, a pharmacy and a photography studio with faded pictures of slutty high school girls from the early '90s in the window. Unless you're very happy with your family and have a rich homelife, that's not a place to live.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 16:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Similarly, AA started in Akron! Hey-o!

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 16:53 (seventeen years ago) link

What American accent do you have? Your Result: The Inland North

You may think you speak "Standard English straight out of the dictionary" but when you step away from the Great Lakes you get asked annoying questions like "Are you from Wisconsin?" or "Are you from Chicago?" Chances are you call carbonated drinks "pop."

The Midland The Northeast Philadelphia The South The West Boston North Central

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 16:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Hmmm... According to that test, I have a good voice for TV or radio, it says. I'm midland first, then Philadelphia. Makes sense. I tried to modulate all of the strange southern Delaware pronunciations out of my speech (like "far" for fire and "boosh" for bush and long-O dog, although I still cling to some Delaware phrasings, like quarter of seven instead of quarter to seven and "get a bath" instead of "take a shower") but I still sometimes stress the "awwww" sounds in coffee, dog, pause, words like that.

― jenny (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 16:56 (seventeen years ago) link

John, you got that because you insist on mispronouncing "horrible."

― jenny (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 16:56 (seventeen years ago) link

For the last time, the word has an O in it. Why would the vowel sound of "whore" be pronounced differently just because it starts with a "wh-" instead of an "h-"?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 16:58 (seventeen years ago) link

You guys.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 16:59 (seventeen years ago) link

What American accent do you have? Your Result: Boston

You definitely have a Boston accent, even if you think you don't. Of course, that doesn't mean you are from the Boston area, you may also be from New Hampshire or Maine.

The West The Midland North Central The Northeast Philadelphia The Inland North The South What American accent do you have?

did that work, i'm gonna guess no right away.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 17:01 (seventeen years ago) link

which is odd because my accent, at this point, is vestigal at best.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 17:02 (seventeen years ago) link

For the last time, the word has an O in it. Why would the vowel sound of "whore" be pronounced differently just because it starts with a "wh-" instead of an "h-"?

Lots of words with the same vowel/consonant pairings are pronounced different. It's the rich pageant of the English language, my man. I mean, it's cool. I'm still your friend even though you're totally wrong about this.

― jenny (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 17:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Give me examples.

Btw, I like that quiz because I felt super-confident about all the answers.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 17:04 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm with John on "horrible".

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 17:05 (seventeen years ago) link

You definitely have a Boston accent, even if you think you don't.

I think it's more that they make you think about how you would say things, rather than just say them, though.

xpost - flood/food

― jenny (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 17:05 (seventeen years ago) link

MIDWEST SOLIDARITEE

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 17:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Wait, never mind. There are lots of examples. So wait: you think that "horrible" is a word that just has an unusual pronunciation, like "women"?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 17:06 (seventeen years ago) link

How do you pronounce "horrid"?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 17:06 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm not orig from the midwest and i pronouce horrible that way (whore etc). so there.

― JuliaA (JuliaA), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 17:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Webster's lists both pronunciations, but mine (and Dan's and Julia's) is first.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 17:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Jenny's just doing the durrty south thing, right? "Huurrible"?

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 17:08 (seventeen years ago) link

Harrible.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 17:09 (seventeen years ago) link

It's the difference between a mid, back rounded vowel and an low unrounded one.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 17:10 (seventeen years ago) link

i was going to try to take that test again to see if i could get a different result, but i just can't pick any different answers, because the other answers feel so wrong.

― JuliaA (JuliaA), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 17:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Your result: TEH MIDLAND

"You have a Midland accent" is just another way of saying "you don't have an accent." You probably are from the Midland (Pennsylvania, southern Ohio, southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and Missouri) but then for all we know you could be from Florida or Charleston or one of those big southern cities like Atlanta or Dallas. You have a good voice for TV and radio.

I also felt very confident about my answers, reprazent.

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 17:11 (seventeen years ago) link

I've seen the whole "Mary, marry, merry" thing before as an example of differences in pronunication -- but I can't figure out how you would pronounce any of those words differently from each other.

I want to have a good voice for TV and radio. :(

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 17:12 (seventeen years ago) link

hawrible.

whoore.

and jenny, i guess it's because my accent is only at about 20% of it's strength from what it was 7 years ago that i forget i may still have one. when i saw my younger sister at a family event last month she told me she couldn't stand to listen to my accent (i think i was pronouncing my r's).

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 17:12 (seventeen years ago) link

I think, John, that I just like busting your chops about something so silly as how people from different regions of the country that have distinct regional accents pronounce a word.*

I don't know how I say horrid. As I sit here in the computer lab whispering "harrid... whore-id" to myself, they both sound right to me.

I got South second to midland if I said that "pin" and "pen" sound similar. The fact that I could go either way there is, I believe, entirely attributable to Jeff. Anecdotally, a WV cousin of mine thought my name was "Ginny" until we ten or eleven because he'd never seen my name written out and "Ginny" and "Jenny" sound the same coming from people with southern accents.

― jenny (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 17:13 (seventeen years ago) link

*It's the asterisk to nowhere...

― jenny (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 17:14 (seventeen years ago) link

That quiz is malarkey -- you can't know how you really pronounce things until you record yourself pronouncing them and use speech analyzer software to determine the height, length and roundness of vowels. Relying on people's perception of how they say things only gives you results about people's perceptions, not what they actually say. The quiz focuses almost entirely on vowels too, which is just one indicator of regional dialect.

Malarkey.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 17:15 (seventeen years ago) link

And I, in turn, enjoy getting overly defensive and self-righteous about something so silly.

Amanda -- malarkey, but accurate for me, at least. Since I have, after all, lived in Chicago almost all my life.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 17:15 (seventeen years ago) link

i had a football coach who used to chide us for our "huss-shit effit out thay-yah."

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 17:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Weirdly my dad says "hawrible" and it's always bothered me.

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 17:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Wait, so you say "hahrrible" too??

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 17:16 (seventeen years ago) link

No, I definitely say "whorrible".

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 17:20 (seventeen years ago) link

The Whorror would be a good band name?

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 17:20 (seventeen years ago) link

"huss-shit effit out thay-yah."

awesome. i miss those accents.

― JuliaA (JuliaA), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 17:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Kevin played football?

― jenny (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 17:26 (seventeen years ago) link

my best friend from back home went to UMaine and his senior year lived in a rented house north of orono (which is just north of bangor). his next door neighbor was this 70-something retired couple named herbie and barbara day, neither of whom had ever left the north woods in their lives. they spent their time sitting on their front porch getting sauced and speaking in the most impenetrable down east accents ever.

xpost- QB/WR/CB. i was actually much better on defense than offense.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 17:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Kevin, I can't even parse that.

I am in the black for vacation time for the first time since June! I have .26 days of vacation.

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 17:30 (seventeen years ago) link

So what's the difference between "whorrible" and "hawrible"? The first pronunciation in Webster's is "h®r-ə-bəl," and when I looked up what "®" was, it said it was like the "aw" in "law." The second pronunciation is "här-ə-bəl," and the "ä" is like the "o" in "mop" or the "a" in "mar." So I figured you either said "harrible" or "hawrible," and that "hawrible" pretty much = "whorrible."

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 17:31 (seventeen years ago) link

(As I suspected, ILX doesn't do O's with dots over them.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 17:32 (seventeen years ago) link

(Single dots, that is -- not diareses.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 17:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Kevin, I can't even parse that.

Quarterback, wide receiver, cornerback.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 17:34 (seventeen years ago) link

So basically Webster's doesn't list "whorrible" as a pronunciation?

xpost, I meant his coach's accent

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 17:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh sorry -- it took me a while, too: "Horseshit effort out there."

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 17:36 (seventeen years ago) link

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