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In the North Carolina accent, which includes most Wendell natives, YES, IT IS. Just like "pen" and "pin", etc (which is why many Southerners refer to an "ink pen", which is redundant, but clarifies between a "pin" and a "pen"). This is regional dialect 101. Find me a native NC person with a Southern accent who says "wehn", I'd love to meet them and interview them--please post a youtube link of someone saying that who is Southern. Other than the long "I" sound, it is one of the primary distinguishing features of Southern English (I have a degree in Linguistics and a special interest in regional accents)
The point was not "wen" vs "win", but "DELL" vs "Duhl", anyway.
In the North Carolina accent, which includes most Wendell natives, YES, IT IS. Just like "pen" and "pin", etc (which is why many Southerners refer to an "ink pen", which is redundant, but clarifies between a "pin" and a "pen"). This is regional dialect 101. Find me a native NC person with a Southern accent who says "wehn", I'd love to meet them and interview them--please post a youtube link of someone saying that who is Southern. Other than the long "I" sound, it is one of the primary distinguishing features of Southern English (I have a degree in Linguistics and a special interest in regional accents)
The point was not "wen" vs "win", but "DELL" vs "Duhl", anyway.
I don't care what kind of degree you have. It's WEN-DEL, NOT WIN-DEL. I'll give you my native southern accent, but I'm not posting it on youtube.
I was really just wondering if if was a short "dle" or a long "dell".
As in "wendle" vs. "wendEll".
When I first read it online, I read it as wen-dell with emphasis on the dell, but then my friend from NC (not native) had said it more like wendle and I didn't know which was correct.
My husband visited the house yesterday while down in NC for his interview and said it seems like a nice, country town. It was quiet and the houses were a decent space apart. Kind of like where we live now, we love to have friendly neighbors but we also like our space and privacy.
He also said it didn't take them more than 20/25 minutes to get there from my MIL's house in N. Raleigh which is great. Seems like exactly what we're looking for.
He also said it didn't take them more than 20/25 minutes to get there from my MIL's house in N. Raleigh which is great. Seems like exactly what we're looking for.
Yep, most folks don't realize that east of Raleigh is a pretty good location now since the hwy 64 bypass has been built. Traffic used to jam up on 64 business, not anymore, it's a piece of cake. Add to that 540 in Knightdale, and you can fly around and thru town in no time. You'll find the communities around there to be quiet, family focused, reasonably priced, and more like this area was before it grew and us non natives moved here
[quote=Rizzle;20312033]I was really just wondering if if was a short "dle" or a long "dell".
As in "wendle" vs. "wendEll".
When I first read it online, I read it as wen-dell with emphasis on the dell, but then my friend from NC (not native) had said it more like wendle and I didn't know which was correct. [\QUOTE]
Yes, the point some of us have been trying to make is that the accent is on the DELL. The vowel of the unaccented first syllable may vary on personal regional accent--Southerners usually say "win" while Northerners say "wen"--but it does NOT rhyme with "Kendall". And there is no "Wh" sounds as in "when".
Isn't the H silent?
If I heard someone trying to emphasize the h in when, I would think that they are a bit off the wall.
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