salt lake city accent (Riverton, Hurricane: live in, places, American)

[c.a.]

Good morning everybody, I'm from Italy and I must make a request to salt lake city natives. As this accent is my favourite, could you please, ladies and men, send voice samples to this web site "Idea The International Dialects of English Archive". Thank you so much.

[Lmejh]

To be honest Salt Lake City has the generic American accent, except among older people (those that say "deeeeeey-lerrrr" for dealer or "playyy-zhurrr" for pleasure or "crick" for creek... I could go on and on )

[SW Native]

Yah...lol...Just the plain american accent. You may want to go down to the south and new jersey/new york to hear some accents.

[kaytidid]

Or Boston!

[daisywolf]

new jersey has some pretty funny accents too!

[stycotl]

technically utah does have an accent, and i wouldn't be surprised if slc has its own accent. they might be more subtle than in other places though (certainly jersey, boston, wisconsin, and other places have more pronounced accents), and therefore we don't recognize it as much, especially for those of us that were raised in the west, and especially especially those of us that were raised in utah.

[terrence81]

Originally Posted by stycotl

technically utah does have an accent, and i wouldn't be surprised if slc has its own accent. they might be more subtle than in other places though (certainly jersey, boston, wisconsin, and other places have more pronounced accents), and therefore we don't recognize it as much, especially for those of us that were raised in the west, and especially especially those of us that were raised in utah.

I concur. Everyone has an accent and each region has distinctive speech characterstics. But some accents stand out more than others like the southern accent, the New England accent, New York or Wisconsin.

[SouthernBelleInUtah]

When I first moved here, I thought almost everyone had a strange accent - clerks in stores, service people, etc. It sounded like some mangled Scandanavian accent. I can't hear it any more - I'm used to it.

[c.a.]

stycotl, terrence81: finally someone who is of the same opinion.
When I said accent, I didn't necessarily talk about the pronunciation of whole words. I talk about your rhythm of speech; the refinement of "r" in words like: future, track etc.; a nasalization not too strong.....


I think that salt lake city natives have a peculiar accent, at least in informal and relaxed speech.

[Chango]

We less educated natives don't pronounce our "t"s very well and and replace it or add a "nnnn" sound in lots of word. For example: I live in 'Riverdin (Riverton), next to the 'mounnains (Mountains), 'bout 50 miles from 'Hurrickin (Hurricane). You know... Old west talk...