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My answer to "What do you REALLY think of the northern influx?"
I got a husband and two kids out of it (as well as several friends). Can't complain too much.
Except in my car. Or when I hear complaints (again) about how kindergartens should be half-day, (again) why aren't there nurses full time in each school, (again) why would you want year-round, and (again) why don't kids just go to their neighborhood schools.
It's still an accent. Trust me. I'm married to a Midwesterner. I have met people from all over the Dirty Jerze and they ALL have had accents of one kind or another.
Yes...everybody's got an accent. How many accents are there just amongst us native North Carolinians? 5 or 6?
My answer to "What do you REALLY think of the northern influx?"
I got a husband and two kids out of it (as well as several friends). Can't complain too much.
Except in my car. Or when I hear complaints (again) about how kindergartens should be half-day, (again) why aren't there nurses full time in each school, (again) why would you want year-round, and (again) why don't kids just go to their neighborhood schools.
Whenever it snows: "oh muy gawd why is everything closed?!?! This is ridiculous!"
It's still an accent. Trust me. I'm married to a Midwesterner. I have met people from all over the Dirty Jerze and they ALL have had accents of one kind or another.
It's typically considered "no accent" but yes, some people (myself included) have Northern Cities Vowel Shift. My A sound like in cat ends up as "caayyyt" sometimes.
It's typically considered "no accent" but yes, some people (myself included) have Northern Cities Vowel Shift. My A sound like in cat ends up as "caayyyt" sometimes.
Yeah... it's really the "everyone can understand this accent" variety of "accent."
I call it the national newscaster accent.
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Some say "pie" instead. Not sure what accent that is, but I know I heard it somewhere up there.
"Pizza Pie" was the term used here years ago. The southern term I guess.
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