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08-20-2009, 07:28 PM
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My grandfather (from the north shore) used to say tonic, so I know what it means. You don't really hear that anymore. He used to say "stoop", too. Meaning the front steps of a house.
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08-20-2009, 08:09 PM
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Originally Posted by Cliff Clavin
A woman here at work thought I was Australian. She kept commenting how she liked my accent. I never gave much thought to it, until one day she said I sounded like Mick Dundee. I kind of scratched my head for a moment, then another guy pipes up..."He's not Australian!". She didn't believe him, and asked others if I sounded Australian. Of course everyone thought she was crazy.
To this day she yells out "Dundee!" every time she sees me. It's a little embarrassing.
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 Even I would find that embarassing.
Maybe nobody is going to notice I'm from Australia when I get there?  |
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08-20-2009, 08:12 PM
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Originally Posted by CaseyB
My grandfather (from the north shore) used to say tonic, so I know what it means. You don't really hear that anymore. He used to say "stoop", too. Meaning the front steps of a house.
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Yes my relatives also said stoop. They had another name for the front porch also, I think it was piazza or something like that, I think with so much influence from Ireland, England, Italy in the Boston area, these words got into the local dialect. |
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08-20-2009, 08:14 PM
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Originally Posted by moonshadow
Maybe nobody is going to notice I'm from Australia when I get there? |
They'll notice you're from England!  |
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08-20-2009, 08:16 PM
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They'll notice you're from England! |
They better not!  Or I'll have to start asking if they're from Canada, again!  |
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08-20-2009, 08:16 PM
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Originally Posted by moonshadow
Even I would find that embarassing.
Maybe nobody is going to notice I'm from Australia when I get there? |
If your in Mass especially outside of Boston, they will probably think your from Maine. |
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08-20-2009, 08:18 PM
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What is soda called in Australia? Is it called tonic there?
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08-20-2009, 08:27 PM
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Originally Posted by Jimrob1
If your in Mass especially outside of Boston, they will probably think your from Maine.
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Now I'll have to find some youtubes of a Maine accent so I know what I'll sound like.
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Originally Posted by Jimrob1
What is soda called in Australia? Is it called tonic there?
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We call it soft drink. 
Any aerated drink is soft drink.
Tonic is a fizzy soft drink with quinine that you put with gin.
AND soda is soda water, a fizzy soft drink with NO sugar or flavour that you have with whisky etc. |
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08-20-2009, 09:20 PM
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I dunno what it is but someone answer me why it is that I want to pronounce my R's the longer Im in the Boston area but when Im other places, I let a more Boston accent flow?
Does it bug me kinda when Im surrounded with people talking with it? What do you think?
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08-20-2009, 09:21 PM
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Oh and when women have it, it does sound worse.
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