[unother]

Originally Posted by Charley

Within New York, there are five boroughs. To the well trained ear, each borough has it's own "accent". If you listen carefully, you can definitely hear my Bronx come through every so often.

Now, if you'll all excuse me, there's a "cuppa cawfee" waiting for me.

Charley

So troo!

I tell people there's a Queens accent here in Cali and they don't believe me... :/

[unother]

Originally Posted by ChrisMcN

I probably have what's considered "standard American English."

No you don't; no such thing.

[unother]

So anyway, I'm a Htfd native (but as a region, it's Htfd to S. NJ where I grew up) and 1. I don't recognize some of your so-called "Hartfordisms" but 2) I do remember substituting an "e" sound for an "a" when younger (like stairs=steers, bear=beer, etc.) and 3) now that I live in CA, most people think I am a Noo Yawker by accent (altho frankly I spent the most of my 20s there and I still remember visiting a friend in Hartford once in my late 20s and within 5 minutes of me talking to him he said "Damn you've been in NY too long".

[sgfludd]

SOUTHERN Baby!

Of interest - the people around Fairfield county - don't pronounce the "r" in Norwalk.

[kidyankee764]

Originally Posted by sgfludd

SOUTHERN Baby!

Of interest - the people around Fairfield county - don't pronounce the "r" in Norwalk.

I've noticed this too.

Fairfield County has a hint of the NY accent, then there's the "Nawgy Vaaaaalley" accent. Eastern CT has the typical New England accent, IMO. Central CT is speaks closest to newscasters, I think.

[andthentherewere3]

Originally Posted by sgfludd

SOUTHERN Baby!

Of interest - the people around Fairfield county - don't pronounce the "r" in Norwalk.

How funny, I've never known anyone to do that in nearly 30 years of living in Fairfield County! And I have lived in Norwalk, lol! I guess the most common accent I hear other than a "standard" accent is a NY accent, and it really pops out at me when I hear it. It's when people pronounce words such as "ball" and "call" as "boo-all" and "coo-all". I always have to fight the urge not to correct them.

I'm not sure what the "Naugy" accent is, I'll have to listen for it.

[JayCT]

I have not noticed the "r" thing in Fairfield County either. I do think though that we pronounce the "r" as a soft r rather than a hard r. Another thing is that we do not pronounce our "h's". Huge is pronounced "uge". DW hates when I do that. Jay

[Stratford, Ct. Resident]

Originally Posted by sgfludd

SOUTHERN Baby!

Of interest - the people around Fairfield county - don't pronounce the "r" in Norwalk.

There's a small segment that tends to pronounce the letter r, as the letter w. I.E.: No-walk, Bwidgepowt, Dawien, Fow(the number 4),etc.

[Bypass10]

There really is no CT accent.
CT doesn't have much of an NE influence, it really is part of greater New York City aside from Eastern CT.

Oh...I do get annoyed when people say Philly is a mid atlantic accent.
Philly is north of the mason-dixon line in PA, it's a northeastern state.
Bawlmer is a mid-atlantic city in merlin.

[Rich Lee]

Originally Posted by Bypass10

There really is no CT accent.
CT doesn't have much of an NE influence, it really is part of greater New York City aside from Eastern CT.

Oh...I do get annoyed when people say Philly is a mid atlantic accent.
Philly is north of the mason-dixon line in PA, it's a northeastern state.
Bawlmer is a mid-atlantic city in merlin.

The Mid-Atlantic states are New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland.