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Sort of same subject -- the way people pronounce words. Westminster Street is invariably spoken as "Westminister Street." I enjoy the RI accent, I just don't want to catch it.
Someone, I think Raiderman, mentioned that when people give directions, they'll say "turn left where the Outlet store used to be." Huh?
I managed to make it over 20 years living in MA, ME, NH, and RI and never caught the accent. I was born and raised in California, which, for the most part, doesn't have an accent (other than the exaggerated surfer or Valley accents for TV). I still tease my wife about hers.. It's dog, not dawg. It's all, not awl. She has learned how to say Nevada, though. It's Nevada, not Nevahda. :P
I managed to make it over 20 years living in MA, ME, NH, and RI and never caught the accent. I was born and raised in California, which, for the most part, doesn't have an accent (other than the exaggerated surfer or Valley accents for TV). I still tease my wife about hers.. It's dog, not dawg. It's all, not awl. She has learned how to say Nevada, though. It's Nevada, not Nevahda. :P
Ah, no lie, and not for nothin', but it is dawg, not dog. And I'll have a regular cawfee, too!
I never developed a DC/Southern accent, and thank God never caught the NYC, either, but I do find myself slipping occasionally with the worst accent of all: Baaston.
I still drop the R's quarta, lobsta, pak, etc......here in the south they drop the ing on just about everything...doen, fixen, getten, Is it mine or urin....
I still drop the R's quarta, lobsta, pak, etc......here in the south they drop the ing on just about everything...doen, fixen, getten, Is it mine or urin....
It's such an assault on the English language!
Do you by any chance remember Mrs. Dole, Bob Dole's wife? She was perhaps the stoopidest person on earth (when she was head of the US Dept of Transportation, people joked that the only thing she knew about transportation was how to drive a car from McLean, VA. to DC). But she had that honeyed Southern accent that could slip the last dollar out of your wallet. Southern women, though not men, have a really seductive accent. On the other hand, RI women sound like truck drivers.
I managed to make it over 20 years living in MA, ME, NH, and RI and never caught the accent. I was born and raised in California, which, for the most part, doesn't have an accent
It drives me crazy when people say that!
Every place has an accent. You may not notice it, but a linguist would.
True, but I'm not a linguist. Can you spot the difference between someone from Wyoming and someone from Montana? Probably not, because there is not a substantial accent. You have, shall we say, severe accents in places like RI, Boston, NYC, the South, Wisconsin, Minnesota, etc. But can you listen to someone from, say, Arizona, and instantly place from where they are from? Now try the same thing in Boston.
Actually, it is those from New Yawwk, and New Joisey that have the most irritating nasal, whiney, arrogant accents. I was highly insulted years ago when I moved here after someone asked me where I was from; and I said RI, to which he said, "Is that part of Long Island?" I still get caught on "cawfee", hard to get rid of that one.
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And I'll have a regular cawfee, too! 
