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Help[Opinions] It reminds of me a midwestern woman
in reply to a message by PhoenixPhire
with really big hair, with a southern accent, who cooks. :-) Not my style.
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lol
Wouldn't a midwestern woman have a midwestern accent and a southern woman a southern accent ;)
Wouldn't a midwestern woman have a midwestern accent and a southern woman a southern accent ;)
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Not if the said midwestern person lived in the southern part of her state...
My mom grew up in a small town in southern Illinois. My grandparents have drawls, and they use somewhat southern slang - lunch is called dinner, dinner is called supper, your = yer, all of you = y'all. Most of the time when my grandmother tries to make an –or sounds (as in color), it comes out as an –er (she said culler). Those are the only things I can really think to describe.
Hmm… funny story: My mom doesn’t have her drawl anymore, because she’s been in Chicago/the suburbs of for so long. However, it will come back under two circumstances: 1) When we go south of Kankakee, and 2) When she’s talking about former President Clinton! He was giving a speech on the radio a number of months ago and afterwards she was talking about it with a perfect southern accent! It was neat.
My mom’s younger sister Charlotte lives in the Champaign area, which is fairly urban because of the University, but she’s still got her accent, and I swear my cousins do to, though theirs is far, far more subtle. I think this has to do with the fact that both their parents are from southern Illinois, though. My aunt and uncle were high school sweethearts, awww….
~ Arcadia
My mom grew up in a small town in southern Illinois. My grandparents have drawls, and they use somewhat southern slang - lunch is called dinner, dinner is called supper, your = yer, all of you = y'all. Most of the time when my grandmother tries to make an –or sounds (as in color), it comes out as an –er (she said culler). Those are the only things I can really think to describe.
Hmm… funny story: My mom doesn’t have her drawl anymore, because she’s been in Chicago/the suburbs of for so long. However, it will come back under two circumstances: 1) When we go south of Kankakee, and 2) When she’s talking about former President Clinton! He was giving a speech on the radio a number of months ago and afterwards she was talking about it with a perfect southern accent! It was neat.
My mom’s younger sister Charlotte lives in the Champaign area, which is fairly urban because of the University, but she’s still got her accent, and I swear my cousins do to, though theirs is far, far more subtle. I think this has to do with the fact that both their parents are from southern Illinois, though. My aunt and uncle were high school sweethearts, awww….
~ Arcadia
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Does she pronounce
wash like "worsh"? Eric's mom says it like that and it drives me crazy.
wash like "worsh"? Eric's mom says it like that and it drives me crazy.
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Worsh
My mom says 'worsh.'
She was born in Indiana and came to California at the age of two, but she held on to that one bit of accent (which she learned from her mother, apparently) her entire life. When she'd say it, my dad would smile at her and call her "Millie" (her mother's name).
- chazda
My mom says 'worsh.'
She was born in Indiana and came to California at the age of two, but she held on to that one bit of accent (which she learned from her mother, apparently) her entire life. When she'd say it, my dad would smile at her and call her "Millie" (her mother's name).
- chazda
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A question...
Do you have any idea if saying "worsh" instead of "wash" is something people in Indiana do? I feel odd asking this, as I've lived in Indiana all my life. Everyone in my family says worsh, worshing, worshing machine, etc... but only I say wash.
Do you have any idea if saying "worsh" instead of "wash" is something people in Indiana do? I feel odd asking this, as I've lived in Indiana all my life. Everyone in my family says worsh, worshing, worshing machine, etc... but only I say wash.
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Nope...lol, though...worsh...
made you look
made you look
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