i figured out what word brings my southern accent out the most

[Ava]

Iowa :rofl:

[Starbucks Anarchist]

1. Like "Aaah-Wuh"?

:P

[Ava]

eye uh wuh

:rofl:

[Starbucks Anarchist]

5. Must be the Alabama dialect.

I used to live in Texas, where "Aaah-Wuh" is more common. :rofl:

[Ava]

7. haven't heard that one

:rofl:

[lizziegrace]

9. Mine's a Texas/Tennessee/Mississippi mix

I know, disastrous. ;-)

[Ava]

10. mine is a southern mississippi/southern alabama/central alabama mix

so i'm betting mine is worse than yours :rofl:

[jobycom]

17. Wow. Can you sue your parents?

:rofl: I mean, mine raised me in south Mississippi, but they offset it with their own New Orleans accents, so at least I can fake sounding urban in a pinch!

[Ava]

19. lol.. well they're lawyers

so that wouldn't be a good idea :rofl:

[jobycom]

27. OMG. So you have a south Missippy, south Bama LAWYER accent!?!?!

:rofl: You're DOOOOMMMMMEEEEDDDD!!! (Unless you claim kinship to Trent Lott, maybe!)

[Ava]

33. oh HELL no... not that accent

i do not sound like a southern judge thankfully :rofl:

[jobycom]

37. So, more like Jimmy Buffet?

[Ava]

41. it is kind of hard to compare my accent to a dudes

:P

but his accent does sound like many dudes around here ;)

[jobycom]

46. Yeah, but I was drawing a blank on famous women from south Mississippi

Robin Roberts, maybe?

[Ava]

51. most of my life has been spent in central alabama

but i learned to talk in southern mississippi and southern alabama. :P

and no, i sound nothing like robin roberts :P

[Starbucks Anarchist]

69. "What is a 'yout?'"

:rofl:

[yellowdogintexas]

83. mine is Kentucky/Tennessee/Texas blended. The more tired I am, the drippier the drawl

I am more twangy when in Texas, but let me get back up to KY for about 15 minutes and the old style comes back, looser, more flowing, richer

my best Southern word is Lu-uh- vul.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

11. I used to live in Mississippi, too.

But you got the trifecta -- or "Trah-Fecktuh." :rofl:

[LostinVA]

13. You lived in Mississipi?

:rofl:

[Starbucks Anarchist]

15. Hey, I was born in Brooklyn!

:mad:

[LostinVA]

21. So you say...

:eyes:

[Starbucks Anarchist]

24. Hanuman ate my birth certificate.

That fucking ape.

[LostinVA]

30. Haruka's birth certificate wasn't valid for awhile

And it didn't even get eaten by an ape.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

35. She was born in NJ, right?

That just made me remember that movie "The Station Agent." It takes place in rural NJ. Have you seen it?

[LostinVA]

38. She was born in the most corrupt county in NJ

They handed out so many fake birth certificates, you couldn't get a passport with a BC from that county. She had to get a new one.

"The Station Agent" was actually filmed in the same town we had our wedding. It's a good movie.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

42. Ah, so she was born that way.

:P

Yeah, I really liked the movie, too. I want to see "The Visitor" (same director) when it comes out on DVD.

[LostinVA]

43. She can't help it

I've never heard of "The Visitor" but I'll check it out.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

56. Richard Jenkins (the father from "Six Feet Under") is in it.

[lizziegrace]

45. Where in Missippi?

;)


Trah-Fecktuh... :rofl:

[Starbucks Anarchist]

62. Gulfport.

I was born in Brooklyn, but we moved soon after that to Gulfport, where we stayed until I was 10.

[lizziegrace]

63. I graduated from Ole Miss

:P

[billyskank]

79. I could listen to your voice forever.

On the phone or in person. Sweet and dreamy to my ears. I'm serious.

[no name no slogan]

49. That's how we pronounce it in MN (which is high-class Iowan)

I would've guessed you'd pronounce it closer to "Ahh-wuh"

[lizziegrace]

3. you beat me to it...

;)

[redqueen]

70. Hah... that's exactly how I say it.

:P

[Starbucks Anarchist]

73. You're from the south?

[redqueen]

74. Texas.

Born & raised.

I can do a "phone voice" though! :7

[Starbucks Anarchist]

75. For some reason, I thought you were from the east coast.

[lizziegrace]

2. do you say

Ah-wa???

;)

[Ava]

4. nope

aye uh wuh

i met a yankee tonight that laughed their ass off at the way i say iowa :rofl:

[lizziegrace]

6. hehe

:)

[Ava]

8. damn yankees

:P

[jobycom]

20. In all seriousness...

Isn't that how it's said? :shrug:

[Ava]

25. not according to him

"i - o - wa"
just like it is spelled

[jobycom]

34. Never trust a Yankee. They can't even "pock" their "kaws." nt

[leftyclimber]

12. Not "thing?"

That one kills me. Every time.

"Thang."

Why can't we just spell it that way?

:rofl:

[Ava]

14. i never have said it as "thang"

unless i was joking.. as in "sweet thang" :P

[leftyclimber]

26. Must be a WV/TX thang.

Family in TX, live in WV ... and WV is Texas, but slower. :rofl:

[Withywindle]

16. For me, it's "iron."

Ah-yurn

[Ava]

18. oh yeah.. ah-yurn here too

:P

[leftyclimber]

29. Or...

arn.

Regional southern accents ... hee. :P

[Withywindle]

36. "ah-yurn" is what we were *taught* to say.

Seeing as how us SW Virginians from half an hour's drive due south of Bluefield didn't want to be like you REAL hillbillies in WV.

[leftyclimber]

39. Yeah, we say "awl," too.

You know, that stuff you have to change in your car every 3,500 miles or so?

:rofl:

[Withywindle]

52. Or it'll get all tore up and catch far. n/t

[leftyclimber]

55. There is no smiley to describe how hard I am laughing. nt

[redqueen]

71. Yup.

I honestly didn't even know that was incorrect. :blush:

[yellowdogintexas]

84. " Ah been arnin' all day and A'm tahrd as hell" nt

[DeepBlueC]

77. I must be a Dix-kee

In Connecticut we say eye-uh-wa, ay-yurn. Have we been infiltrated at some point in the distant past? :shrug:

[stuntcat]

22. eye-wa?...

what?? :p

I'm totally so proud of my southern NC accent :headbang:

[Ava]

28. people either love or hate my southern accent

guys from other places act like it is "cute"(which is actually kind of annoying when they keep asking you to repeat stuff). a lot of folks think i must be a dumb hick though.. as soon as they hear me.

[stuntcat]

40. use it

the dumb hick thing is totally an angle I've found myself using before.

And the cute part is true, it's 100% cute :headbang:
I think my accent's gotten stronger the past few years.. like I feel so proud of growing up in the South but without being that stereotype.

[jobycom]

23. Not your name?

:rofl:

[Ava]

31. "ay - vuh"

:P

[Ava]

32. dupe

[RevolutionaryActs]

44. Someday I will meet you in person.

And I will mock you. :P


One of my mom's best friends is originally from Texas, we make so much fun of her. Especailly if she says "ruined" or "embroidery". :P

[Ava]

47. and i will mock you back

after all.. i'm not the one with posters of pirates on my wall :P

[RevolutionaryActs]

48. Fair deal.

:rofl:



I am teh dork. :7 But you must admit Johnny is purdy. :P

[Ava]

53. yes, yes he is

but still... he isn't on my wall :P

now get me a poster that looks like this and i might put it on my wall :P

[Connonym]

50. There's nothing funny about Iowa young lady!

:-P

[Ava]

54. no, apparently just the way i say it

then again, the way i say a lot of words seems to make some yankees giggle :P

[arcadian]

57. Do you pronounce "on" like "own"

My cousins from N.C. do, they got it thick.

[Critters2]

58. I remember when I went to a rally with John Edwards in Des Moines 4 years ago!

He ran enthusiastically out on the platform and yelled, at the top of his lungs, "Ah luv Ahwuh!" :rofl:

[LostInAnomie]

59. Mine is "for".

If I'm talking fast I always say "fer".

[RushIsRot]

60. My lady-friend from Missouri keeps asking me to repeat, "want."

She thinks it shows my southern heritage the best. I guess I say it: "wawnt."

And to think, when I worked in DC, they thought I was from Pennsylvania. :-)

[Doug.Goodall]

61. Give me a 'nuther drank

[unpossibles]

64. I've lost mine, but now and then it comes out in long vowels

like "paaint" (paint) or "cohne" (cone), but not very often. My accent was not that heavy to begin with though.

[skygazer]

65. I'm in Virginia visiting my son

Who claims, in a lovely southern drawl, that he doesn't have an accent and has no idea what anyone is talking about when they say he does. :rofl:

[XNASA]

66. Insurance, Umbrella & Important

As a Yankee who has lived in a couple of Southern cities and who visits the South regularly it's the words 'insurance', 'umbrella' and 'important' that have the most obvious Southern/Northern givaway. Linguistically speaking.

Yankees say 'in-CHUR-ents', Southerners say 'IN-shur-ints'.
Yankess say 'um-BRELL-ah', Southerners say 'UM-brell-ah', and..
Yankees say 'im-PORT-tant', while Southerners say, 'in-PORD-den'.

[Phentex]

67. Add THEE-ater and VEE-hickle...

For theatre and vehicle.

:D

[MsTryska]

68. *lol* that's funny.

My bf usually has a soft southern drawl, but when he's at work he sounds straight hillbilly. mine comes and goes too - depending on who I talk to, but mine's adopted. I'm from NY originally. But i think because I was mutlilingual when I first moved to this country and had to go to speech therapy, i've somehow picked up the talent to absorb the accent of my environments.

[redqueen]

72. Do you put extra syllables in words, too?

I do that. :P

[RainDog]

76. for me it's "five" or fiiiiiiive n/t

[SoxFan]

78. Not "nook-you-lurr"?

My wife (an Arkansan) lapses into that, to much mirth and merriment among the assembled New Englandahs.

[billyskank]

80. I hate my voice.

I think I sound stupid.

[Ava]

81. you have a british accent right?

i can't sound bad.. come to america.. they'll love your accent! :rofl:

unfortunately, the american accent(and the southern accent) don't exactly seem to be loved. :rofl:

[Skittles]

82. Iowa = Idiots Out Walking About

I learned that when I lived in Minnesota :D