Name: Sally central Maryland slef employed writier
Stormy, there was an older guy on The Wire, he was a hgh up in the dept, he came in on the later seasons. But he was real true Bawlmer accent and a local actor- it is a very unique speech style, I reckon.
Some people here 'warsh' their hair when it gets dirty, and 'awl,' the wheels when they squeak.
I think that I shall never see...A poem lovely as a tree ( Kilmer) Whatever the weather, you can bring your own sunshine (DD) I'm not REAL smart but I think I'm pretty good average (my dad)
Name: Kelli California, USDA 10, Sunset 19 Where summer is winter
sallyg wrote:
Some people here 'warsh' their hair when it gets dirty, and 'awl,' the wheels when they squeak.
You get that in SW PA, too, though it is "worsh" more than "warsh". Myself and my immediate family didn't say it that way, but I do say "awl" or something like that. It's kind of a cross between "awl" and "ol".
Name: Sally central Maryland slef employed writier
It's kind of a cross between "awl" and "ol".
Exactly! You know what I mean
I think that I shall never see...A poem lovely as a tree ( Kilmer) Whatever the weather, you can bring your own sunshine (DD) I'm not REAL smart but I think I'm pretty good average (my dad)
Name: Stormy Valley Forge Pa I Love MAM ~ So Happy Together
Sally, I have heard some of those strange Baltimore accents. They say worsh and awl here upstate in oil and mining country. A lot of those folks come originally from Wales and Bohemia and some are very hard to understand. It's almost like they are speaking a whole other language.
Philadelphians say wudder for water. Our vowel sounds are generally very closed mouthed and many of our hard consonants are softened.
Name: Sally central Maryland slef employed writier
Guess its not sucha B more thing as a Bmore to Philly central PA thing
Our cousins in WI cracked up with us when we compared How now brown cow, each our own way, their very "round", ours almost hayow nayow brayown cayow.
I think that I shall never see...A poem lovely as a tree ( Kilmer) Whatever the weather, you can bring your own sunshine (DD) I'm not REAL smart but I think I'm pretty good average (my dad)
Name: Stormy Valley Forge Pa I Love MAM ~ So Happy Together
Yes midwesterners often make one syllable vowels sound like two syllables. Southerners do that with a lot of one syllable words with a as the central vowel. chayer, hayer, cayer.
Name: Sally central Maryland slef employed writier
Their 'how' is more like when I say 'ow, that hurt'. I don't know how thats really desccribed technically. Speech formation, in the use of the mouth etc, seems very interesting.
VA is a huge state, and when you get down near NC there is a strong 'southern' accent.
I think that I shall never see...A poem lovely as a tree ( Kilmer) Whatever the weather, you can bring your own sunshine (DD) I'm not REAL smart but I think I'm pretty good average (my dad)
Name: Stormy Valley Forge Pa I Love MAM ~ So Happy Together
Sally, I can sometimes hear a bit of a southern twang in your speech. I can even hear it in down state folks in Delaware. Except for the suburbs right around the capitol a lot of northern Virginians have it too, but nothing like those Virginians down around Roanoke. They really sound like hill people.
Name: Kelli California, USDA 10, Sunset 19 Where summer is winter
I've heard said that the Pittsburgh accent is the harshest in the English language. We really grind our consonants, they say. It seems to me that we tend to make the vowels kind of nasal, too. My 'how now brown cow" would be a lot like Sally's. I'm not saying that she has a Pittsburgh accent, but there appears to be some grading of the southern into the north or vice versa. (When I was a kid, I didn't know there was such thing as a Pittsburgh accent. I thought I spoke plain and ordinary.)
I had a roommate in college from CT or NY and she thought it was funny that I said "body" like "bawdy". I don't know any other way to say it. I must be missing some vowel sound in my vocabulary. She also said that I said "camp" almost like it was two syllables, almost like "ca-amp".
Name: Stormy Valley Forge Pa I Love MAM ~ So Happy Together
I've never heard that camp thing. The Pittsburgh accent definitely is memorable. It's funny, Critter is a native of Pittsburgh, but I never notice her having much of that type of accent. Even though Pittsburgh is in PA, the speech and word choices there are much closer to midwestern sounds and usage than to that of the East Coast.
In general I haven't noticed most people in the northern parts of the country using expressions of attestation much at all. That seems to be a southern thing. Can a "you betcha" be considered an expression of attestation? Or how about the one word statements of "Well" or "eh"?
Name: Sally central Maryland slef employed writier
Sho nuff!
Sho nuff?
Nuff said?
Not quite sure I would know what is an attestation, you'll be edifying me!
Mark's is probably. Huh....uhhuh. When I have something minor to inform him/ tell him, that only calls for minimal inout, he follows this vey predictable pattern I guess we've been married "long enough"
Aisle is a funny looking word. as in cereal aisle in the grocery store. BTW, I grew up calling it a grocery store, but some say food store, which is easier but used to sound funny to me.
My mom grew up in CUmberland, western Md and very close to PA on the Pittsburgh side. My dad was from WI but had lost his WI accent by the time I came along.
I think that I shall never see...A poem lovely as a tree ( Kilmer) Whatever the weather, you can bring your own sunshine (DD) I'm not REAL smart but I think I'm pretty good average (my dad)
Name: Stormy Valley Forge Pa I Love MAM ~ So Happy Together
I really don't know if there is a widely used northern equivalent to I declare or I swanny. I guess "you don't say" might be similar, but we don't often say that. I think that we don't use a catch all type of phrase like I declare.
Name: Sally central Maryland slef employed writier
talked to my dad about a small favor I will do, and he concluded the agreement saying "That's swell !' I haven't used that in I don't know if ever.
I think that I shall never see...A poem lovely as a tree ( Kilmer) Whatever the weather, you can bring your own sunshine (DD) I'm not REAL smart but I think I'm pretty good average (my dad)
Feel free to swanny at whim. Maybe there should be a swanny dance 
I guess we've been married "long enough" 
