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I think the only reason it put me in Central is because I pronounce my R's. Every other characteristic was northern seeing as the 2 options for each question were quite obviously either northern or southern. I know people from Hudson County, born, raised, and still work there who say their R's so I'm not sure where this idea that natives to NJ don't say their R's comes from, but in my experience they do. I think this is where people mix up New York and New Jersey accents. I find the only distinguishable difference is that we in NJ DO say our R's while New Yorkers tend to not, but on a different level that the typical Boston accent.
It gave me North Jersey, where I am from and I DO pronounce my Rs, so that's not it.
People, MOST of North Jersey say their Rs. Look at a map. There's a lot more to North Jersey than Hudson County, the only place where the R really gets lost.
I knew a lady from Pittsburgh and she's the only one I ever heard who said "lig" as in National Football League. We all laughed when she said it. "National Football Leg? WTF is that?" I say "leeg", "cawfee" and "wahter" cuz I'm from North Jersey. Have no idea what "wood-er" is.
So is it "roof" or "ruff"? Midwesterners say "ruff" but I say "roof." Of course I am right because only dogs can say "ruff"
We do say wooder in my family, and you can't say it's not in North Jersey because my family lived in the same NW Bergen County town for at least five generations. No stop off in NYC to live in tenements for a generation or anything, either.
We do say wooder in my family, and you can't say it's not in North Jersey because my family lived in the same NW Bergen County town for at least five generations. No stop off in NYC to live in tenements for a generation or anything, either.
We're neighbors and I swear I never heard "wooder" up there. You got some unknown Philly genes you didn't know about.
Nobody says "hoagie" there either. Hero or maybe sub. Philly ppl also say "phone" weird. It sounds like "foone."
We're neighbors and I swear I never heard "wooder" up there. You got some unknown Philly genes you didn't know about.
Nobody says "hoagie" there either. Hero or maybe sub. Philly ppl also say "phone" weird. It sounds like "foone."
Maybe it's just because we were old Bergen County hicks. You high-falutin' newcomers probably had better diction than we did. I used to say "sum'm" for something, too, until a Black friend who was very careful to use better English at work than she did at home made fun of me for it. I learned to use better English at work myself!
Re the foone and hoome thing, I know. I had a friend who moved to Ventnor and picked up that Philly way of saying those words. What was worse was that she was from Kearny originally, so she said "Nork" for Newark and "yuhs" as a plural of you. Then she picked up the foone hoome bit on top of it.
My mother says "hoagie", but only because for many years Midland Park's HS seniors had a hoagie sale, starting back in the 60s. No one was yet really familiar with those types of sandwiches, whatever they were going to be called, and eventually "Hero" and "Sub" settled in as the North Jersey term. (I have a friend in Westchester who calls them "wedges".)
So my mother still says hoagie, but she's the only person north of the Raritan who does.
I don't have a Jersey accent but I took the quiz anyway and got "North Jersey." Based on the description of that accent, I think it really only represents Hudson County.
I don't either. People have told me so when I've told them I'm from NJ. I think the accent is more of any NY accent. You know like like a tree instead of three Frank Sinatra type of talk. Most educated Northerners (from any state) don't sound like that. However, I've noticed with NJ (as compared to say the midwest/middle America) we don't pronounce ws "right". There's a few other differences, but I notice it a lot with w words. Like the midwesterner way of saying anything with a w as wh like white or whip. Like WHa-ter instead of wought-er (as anyone else says it).
We're neighbors and I swear I never heard "wooder" up there. You got some unknown Philly genes you didn't know about.
Nobody says "hoagie" there either. Hero or maybe sub. Philly ppl also say "phone" weird. It sounds like "foone."
Fun story about sandwiches. When I first started my career I worked with this guy from Boston. Someone had a Blimpie. He said "Who has a GRIND-AH?! It f*cking SMELLS!". The way he said it and how offended he was by the smell, we all thought someone had body odor. He said grinder was a sub. For many years that was running the joke was people were stressed or just really quiet someone would shout "YOUR GRIND-AHHHHHHHHH!!!! F*CKING SMELLS! USE SOME SOAP".
It gave me North Jersey, where I am from and I DO pronounce my Rs, so that's not it.
People, MOST of North Jersey say their Rs. Look at a map. There's a lot more to North Jersey than Hudson County, the only place where the R really gets lost.
Yeah. I got North Jersey, was weird to see the blurb at the end be so focused on the one question that isn't really representative of the area however. I mean, people do occasionally drop the r but it's either a rare thing out of laziness or a sign they just got back from a few years up in Boston. Probably the least distinctively North Jersey thing on that list,
I used to occasionally get gently made fun of by friends for "cawfee" and "wahter" when I lived outside the NYC area. Didn't realize I had an accent until that point
It gave me North Jersey, where I am from and I DO pronounce my Rs, so that's not it.
People, MOST of North Jersey say their Rs. Look at a map. There's a lot more to North Jersey than Hudson County, the only place where the R really gets lost.
That's what I was saying, I think we agree and you misunderstood.
People in NJ DO tend to say their R's but this quiz makes it seem like we do not. How many NJ residents say "cah" rather than "car"? Very few in my experience - even people I know from Hudson County which is probably most closely associated with NYC. I was surprised to see that "r" drop option, I was like what is this New York City? Better yet, Boston? Who really talks like that?
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