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08-23-2008, 05:51 PM
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Arizona dreamin'
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: Reality: Duluth, MN - In my heart: Phoenix, AZ
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Originally Posted by knke0402
Same if you pronounce Merry, Marry, and Mary the same.
and Vague, bag, and rag the same.
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I do that. But, I don't sound like Fargo, or anything close to it.
How are you SUPPOSED to pronounce those words? |
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08-23-2008, 06:40 PM
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Happy Birthday! Briscoe the boy puppy turns one.
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Sometimes located below the Mogollon Rim other times located on the banks of the Colorado River
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I was born and raised in Brooklyn NY. The words pin and pen sound different. Don and Dawn sound different to me too.
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08-24-2008, 10:15 AM
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On the misty plateau
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Merrimack Valley, NH
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A more pronounced ow sound with words is one distinction along with the i sound. It is somewhat Canadian sounding with some Norwegian influences as well.
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08-24-2008, 03:35 PM
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Not a member
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Join Date: Aug 2008
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Originally Posted by acrylic
I do that. But, I don't sound like Fargo, or anything close to it.
How are you SUPPOSED to pronounce those words?
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Well, Merry is more like MErry.. the emphasis on the MER.
Mary, is quicker than Marry, the Marry is a dragged out RR sound with less emphasis on the Y and more of the RRs and Mary is more emphasis on Y.
yeah, i pronounce all the same. |
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08-24-2008, 03:42 PM
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Senior Member
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Minnesota
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Originally Posted by acrylic
I do that. But, I don't sound like Fargo, or anything close to it.
How are you SUPPOSED to pronounce those words?
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I think somebody has accent denial  |
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08-24-2008, 11:44 PM
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Arizona dreamin'
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: Reality: Duluth, MN - In my heart: Phoenix, AZ
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Lol, it could be, but I listen to myself and everyone I speak to, and we don't sound like that. I'm sure we have a bit of a dialect difference, but I don't see us speaking any differently than anyone in the midwest. People in Wisconsin speak the same as the people I associate with do as well. *shrugs and probably will shrug on this topic for the rest of eternity* =p
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08-25-2008, 08:51 AM
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Senior Member
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Minnesota
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Originally Posted by acrylic
Lol, it could be, but I listen to myself and everyone I speak to, and we don't sound like that. I'm sure we have a bit of a dialect difference, but I don't see us speaking any differently than anyone in the midwest. People in Wisconsin speak the same as the people I associate with do as well. *shrugs and probably will shrug on this topic for the rest of eternity* =p
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Actually people from Duluth speak a little different from us down South. 
Just giving you some grief. Heh... |
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08-25-2008, 10:14 AM
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Arizona dreamin'
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: Reality: Duluth, MN - In my heart: Phoenix, AZ
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Originally Posted by kuan
Actually people from Duluth speak a little different from us down South.
Just giving you some grief. Heh... |
Oh the grief I go through on a daily basis...  j/k 
Anyways, if I have an accent, so be it. My parents have accents...on account of they're from different countries. So having an accent can't be all that bad, can it?  |
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09-04-2008, 04:57 AM
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Yah, I tink so! Heck yeah! Minnesota has a very definite accent. When I moved down south thirty years ago I worked in a restaurant. No one could understand me... I came from northern Minnesota, so the way I talked was pretty distinctive! I think the accent is pretty much gone, although when I am around those from Mn. I start sounding like them without even meaning too.
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09-04-2008, 10:29 AM
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Jah," oh for cute" has been around since as far back as I can remember, so has "oh for dumb." I grew up in Bagley, Mn. and the surrounding areas. I assure you, I heard that said all the time when I lived there. That was back in the 60s-70s-
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