Maine Vocab

[inthetrees]

I cant think of one word in particular, but the southern style redneck french accent that the older males in maine have..... this accent is hilarious and just makes me chuckle everytime I hear it. Doesnt sound anything like a new england/northeast accent. On top of that if you are not used to it, it doesnt even sound like english.

Seems to be especially prominent north of Newport and east of Bangor.

Originally Posted by mainegrl2011

I remembered that this topic had been thoroughly covered at least once before...(The search forums feature is very helpful.) ....

With that sort of logic, you could remove 75% of all new post/threads on city data.

[RMoore007]

I remember my grandmother in the old house in Dover in the 50's and 60's listening in on the party line and us kids come storming in the dooryard and into the living room and being told to "Hark"! by her as she didn't want to be found out that she was listening in on her neighbors. (Seems they did it to her all the time too and knew everything about our family.)

And when my grandmother was actually on the phone herself and talking to someone, she would say the word "Ayah" about 50 times I suppose as just a nervous habit or that she was really listening hard.

Our family ended up with the number of the once 5 party line I guess because everyone else died off. My sister keeps it alive still even though she has a cell phone.



My grandmother's brothers, my great uncles would say: "We're going down the rud, be back later." And: "When we get back, we'll get up on the rough and fix the leak."

When my dad moved the family from central Maine to southern Maine in the early 60's, we were used to saying "soda" but found out that "tonic" was used more down in Eliot. Not by everyone though. Then when my dad moved the family again to Hartford, CT in the late 60's, we heard people start calling it "pop".