What Does a Kansan Living in Maine Sound Like?
...the answer in that question can be found below in my response to the Regional Diction Meme that's been making the rounds. I can't hear much of an accent to my voice at all, but I'll let you be the judge, interwebs ;)
Say the following words:
Aunt, Route, Wash, Oil, Theater, Iron, Salmon, Caramel, Fire, Water, Sure, Data, Ruin, Crayon, Toilet, New Orleans, Pecan, Both, Again, Probably, Spitting image, Alabama, Lawyer, Coupon, Mayonnaise, Syrup, Pajamas, Caught
Now answer these questions:
So am I the hayseed that people here in New England seem to think I am? One thing I'm dead certain of--my accent is nowhere NEAR as thick as the Maine dialect. Not by a looooong shot!
Say the following words:
Aunt, Route, Wash, Oil, Theater, Iron, Salmon, Caramel, Fire, Water, Sure, Data, Ruin, Crayon, Toilet, New Orleans, Pecan, Both, Again, Probably, Spitting image, Alabama, Lawyer, Coupon, Mayonnaise, Syrup, Pajamas, Caught
Now answer these questions:
- What is it called when you throw toilet paper on a house?
- What is the bug that when you touch it, it curls into a ball?
- What is the bubbly carbonated drink called?
- What do you call gym shoes?
- What do you say to address a group of people?
- What do you call the kind of spider that has an oval-shaped body and extremely long legs?
- What do you call your grandparents?
- What do you call the wheeled contraption in which you carry groceries at the supermarket?
- What do you call it when rain falls while the sun is shining?
- What is the thing you change the TV channel with?
So am I the hayseed that people here in New England seem to think I am? One thing I'm dead certain of--my accent is nowhere NEAR as thick as the Maine dialect. Not by a looooong shot!