A silly question about accents (Lexington, Louisville: upper-class, how much, restaurant)
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well they have southern accents.!. im from around there. if you was to say fingers i would say do you mean fangers?!. and potatoes is taters and tomatoes is maters... we have a very bad accent once you really get into the hollers!. we say yall alot to!
In lots of the London Flea Market videos on Youtube one can hear a special brand of southern accent that I've heard in all parts of KY.
To me, some regional accents are much more musical and interesting than others. This KY accent is one of my favorites.
I know I have a blend of New Jersey and Texas accents because I've spent half of my life in each place. The longer I live in KY, the more I hear myself changing yet again.
Kentucky geographically is a southeastern state. The accent of the majority of native Kentuckians is what one would consider Southern. What many of you forget, is Louisville in recent years has been influence by Indiana with this silly Kentuckiana term. Also, norther Kentucky is influenced by Ohio. there are a lso a vast amount of retired military Yankees in the state. No, I have never met a true/native Kentuckian, either from Louisville, Pikeville, Lexington or Bowling Green speak speak with a so-called Midwest or Northern accent. Those are the facts.
It varies. In Louisville, I guess you have a mixture of midwestern and southern accents, and I think that goes for the same in Lexington. But the former has more of a midwestern feel than the latter. I was born and raised in Louisville, and I don't say "y'all" or use "coke" for every soft drink.
I worked at the now defunct Verizon call center (formerly GTE) in harrodsburg rd for almost 9 years. There were several Lexington natives that I worked with. It was fascinating to me because some of the natives would have a very slight twang, some had to me what sounded like general American dialect, while others sounded REALLY southern, almost equally as southern sounding as my hometown in NC. I would make it a point to ask them where they were originally from and they were born in, went to school, and grew up in Lexington, and yet their accents were not the same. Strange!
Southern accents for sure. My mom calls pants (that you wear) "paints"; and eggs are called "aigs" These are just examples.
Bulls eye lol...
Of course it's southern accent...It's difficult at first if you're not familiar with it but for me now,I love it...btw English is not my native language...
There are very few areas that are treeless farmland in the South, it's almost all covered with pine forests for paper production. All the horse, cattle, and hay/ grain farms in the BG are more similar to what you would find in the Great Plains/ Midwest IMO
what is the weather like in Brownsville Kentucky today?
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Sample of accent I've heard all over KY
