No Accent Here
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Now, how did that happen? I'm a Delawarean. Shouldn't I have some kind of accent?
I'll never forget going into a Burger King--a Burger King, mind you-- and having the girl taking my order say, "Wood-er? Wood-er? How do you spell that?"
I thought that was rather rude. She knew perfectly well I wanted water.
Where do people from the Eastern Sure of Maryland get off making fun of Delawareans?
At least Philly wasn't my biggest influence. Thank goodness.
Thanks to Hube and Jeff the Baptist for this fun little quiz.
posted by Anna Venger @ 5:39 AM
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Any time I travel, people tell me I have an accent. I think it's so funny because I didn't think people from Wisconsin have accents.
But we do. We totally do.
LOL!!! Mine came out as being:
Philadelphia. Can you believe it?
"Your accent is as Philadelphian as a cheesesteak! If you're not from Philadelphia, then you're from someplace near there like south Jersey, Baltimore, or Wilmington. if you've ever journeyed to some far off place where people don't know that Philly has an accent, someone may have thought you talked a little weird even though they didn't have a clue what accent it was they heard."
Me, the midwesterner now in Delaware gets pegged with a Philadelphia accent from this quiz. The folks setting up the quiz must have things off cause folks in Philadelphia have such an accent to my ears.
And yes, you do say wood--er.
I tested as ... from the West. Being from the West, I suppose that makes sense. We don't sound much like cowboys here (well, some of us do, in parts), in fact when people are learning to be newscasters there's an institute in Seattle that people go to to "erase" their accent. We just sound like folks, we sound like the people on TV here.
It's funny though, TV and national radio is erasing our regional accents slowly but surely. I don't particularly care, although I do like some accents, there's something about a southern girl ;)
The accents from the Minnesota etc area are fun, they were showcased pretty well in Fargo, ya?
Oh, ya, Fargo showcased a lot of things pretty well. That is a movie I could have done without. Too brutal for me, and with no point. Shudder.
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