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Old 09-30-2012, 12:12 PM
 
Location: PA/NJ
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Old 09-30-2012, 09:59 PM
 
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I always thought you were a New Yorker?
LOL.

I did live in NYC as a young kid and have deep roots there (a lot of family is still there or only left recently) but I spent most of my school-aged years around Pt. Pleasant/Asbury Park. I've never had a "New York" accent but, even if I did, it wouldn't matter because my family from the Bronx/B'klyn/Jersey City pronounce those "a" words the same way I do.

I think when people think about those vowels with a New York accent they pronounce them in their head (or out loud) with a Queens/Jewish accent.

The older people on the other side of my family (who go back 4 generations in Asbury) have more of a South Jersey-ish accent . . . my wife grew up in Camden Co. and I notice that the people we know who grew up in places like Absecon, Egg Harbor Twp, etc have an accent far more similar to mine than to my wife's or her family.
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Old 10-06-2012, 12:07 PM
 
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Can't forget how they also project those accents down the street with their shrill voices...I can hear em halfway down the block
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Old 10-06-2012, 01:34 PM
 
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If anyone watches Thursday Night Football on the NFL Network Mike Mayock (whose from Philly) always says "lig" when refering to the "league".
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Old 10-06-2012, 02:06 PM
 
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Rhymes with 'Iggles'...
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Old 10-06-2012, 08:24 PM
 
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Rhymes with 'Iggles'...
Mayock also says "Iggles". Brian Baldinger, as well. He grew up in Cherry Hill.
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Old 10-06-2012, 08:57 PM
 
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Cherry Hill=Philly metro area.
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Old 10-06-2012, 09:12 PM
 
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Different parts of the city have different accents. It also depends on what ethnicity and race one is of course. I said before and I'll say it again, besides the "o", the Philadelphia accent sounds completely different from Baltimore accent imo. Anyway aspects of the Philadelphia accent Tawk cawfee wit strheet boss=baws, youse, muney, caught= cauwght (same with taught etc). Also the South Philadelphia accent does a LOT like the New York accent.

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Old 10-06-2012, 09:58 PM
 
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Cherry Hill=Philly metro area.
Of course. Camden County is about as Philly as it gets without being in the city proper.
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Old 10-08-2012, 11:03 AM
 
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I said before and I'll say it again, besides the "o", the Philadelphia accent sounds completely different from Baltimore accent imo.
There are some differences between the two but to say they're completely different is a stretch. If this guy was sitting in Rittenhouse saying the exact same thing I doubt many people would hear him and say "oh, he's from Baltimore" and not "oh, he's from the suburbs"


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