Does your 'Lawnguyland' accent stick out where you moved to? (New York: eat, island)

[hotkarl]

Thankfully, myself, my wife, or kids, have that ridiculous accent.
It’s like nails on a chalkboard to me.

[lubby]

Can you say Bumpa ta bumpa traffic? Cawfee, cathlick, winda instead of window. My accent is so LI I can't hide it LOL.what eva instead of what ever.

[NJ Brazen_3133]

You should be Wrong Guyland

[suzy_q2010]

Originally Posted by manekeniko

Lived on LI most of my life and my accent is pure Nassau/Suffolk, not resembling my mother's pure Brooklynese accent all that much.

Where I live now, among the cowboys and Indians, I sound a little funny. I asked my plumber for his opinion, but Carlos was too polite to confirm this.

For example, the word "sure." Like the rest of you, I pronounce it like "shore," while people here say "shir." It took a bit of getting used to. I cannot pronounce Long Island as two words.

Those of you down South: have you picked up a drawl?

I have been in the South all my life. I have been told I do not have a Southern accent. DH is from upstate NY but does not have much of a regional accent, either.

I did have a college roommate from LI for one quarter when I was in college in the mid sixties. It took her about one week to start using "y'all"!

My sister in law's English accent has faded a bit after most of a half century in GA.

[suzook]

Long Island accent has definitely moved closer to the Brooklyn/Queens accent. It is still slightly different, especially the women of LI, its very distinctive, annoying if you will.

[scampy25]

Originally Posted by suzook

Long Island accent has definitely moved closer to the Brooklyn/Queens accent. It is still slightly different, especially the women of LI, its very distinctive, annoying if you will.

As Hotkarl said, like nails on a chalkboard. Very true, that it seems to be more the women.

[lubby]

The two Yutes

[nancy thereader]

Thankfully, myself, my wife, or kids, have that ridiculous accent.
It’s like nails on a chalkboard to me.


You are right ; it is more women who speak that way ( loudly ) .No one in my family has ever
had that Teresa Caputo accent either .

[Jdawg8181]

A lot of people on Long Island have more pronounced accents than I do. I wonder if it has to do with where your parents grew up. My parents grew up on Long Island, they never lived in Brooklyn or Queens or anything like that but I have friends whose parents grew up in Brooklyn and Queens and their accents are way more pronounced

[Jdawg8181]

Originally Posted by lubby

Can you say Bumpa ta bumpa traffic? Cawfee, cathlick, winda instead of window. My accent is so LI I can't hide it LOL.what eva instead of what ever.

I do not talk like this lol