National Slang...

[Katie Reynolds]

SUR-up. My friends make fun of me all the time for that. I have a very werid, faint accent. I was orn and lived in (lower) Michigan til I was 7, so I had the Michigan accent (not the UPer one, the normal one!) then mixed with my MI accent was the WI accent (or lack thereof) ... but my dad's side of the family is from New York! So some words I say with a NY accent: AR-njuh (orange) dahg(dog).. some Michigan baygh (bag), raygh (rag) melk (milk) bay-ghel (bagel)... and the rest is normal Wisconsin... haha, I am so strange.

- Katie

[Jnadke]

Originally posted by Katie_93
SUR-up. My friends make fun of me all the time for that. I have a very werid,

Hmm... I do most of those same things... never really noticed it... (yea... i say sur-up).

But... accents tend to be fun.

[purplehaze357]

wooter or wa-ter...

[Anne George]

Wa-ter

[Joe Matt]

wa-der

[Greg Ross]

Originally posted by AmyBeth330


How do you all say "syrup"? "See-rup" or "ser-up"? I personally say it "see-rup" (isn't that how it's spelled?), but i don't normally notice that one.

Well, of course SUR-up is the right way, and SEAR-up is common enough. But does anyone really say SEE-rup?

BTW, why is it that you can't phonetically spell the short i sound in SEAR-up with an "i" without it coming out pronounced SUR-up?

English is such a strange language.

[Quain]

I've heard a few SEE-rups around. But nothin beats philly wooder.... (water) but yea.. english is real odd... but i still love it

[Amy Beth]

Originally posted by Katie_93
I say with a NY accent: AR-njuh (orange) dahg(dog).. some Michigan baygh (bag), raygh (rag) melk (milk) bay-ghel (bagel)... and the rest is normal Wisconsin... haha, I am so strange.

dahg...how is that unusual? In California dialect there is no difference between "ah" and "aw"....for example, the vowels in "hot" and "dog" are pronounced exactly the same....none of this "hat dowg" stuff. BTW.....are "bayg" "rayg" "flayg" "melk" and "pellow" michigan? i have two or three friends that consistently say those (all born and raised in socal), and i had no idea where those came from. Also..."bay-ghel" is not unusual...is it? i don't think i've ever heard it pronounced any other way.

Other quick questions....do you write with a "pen" or a "pin?"
And do you send letters in "envelopes" "invelopes" or "onvelopes"?
Is your greatest fear "nuclear" war or "nucular" war?
what do you call your grandparents?
do you write "grey" or "gray"?
do you eat "donuts" or "doughnuts"?

[Quain]

Originally posted by AmyBeth330

Other quick questions....do you write with a "pen" or a "pin?"
And do you send letters in "envelopes" "invelopes" or "onvelopes"?
Is your greatest fear "nuclear" war or "nucular" war?
what do you call your grandparents?
do you write "grey" or "gray"?
do you eat "donuts" or "doughnuts"?

Here in Philly its.. -
Pen
Envelopes
Nuclear
Grandmom/Grandpop but my nephew calls my 'rents mom-mom & pop-pop
Grey.. *i think?*
and Donuts.. but thats thanks to the simpsons.. haha

I have a tad of NY accent in me thx to my vacation house.. there's so many NY people there.. haha

[FRANK(WGH)]

HERE'S ONE I BET NO ONE WILL FORGET.
AAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YOU KNOW FROM CANADA

[Jeff Waegelin]

I would think it would be Ehhhhhh!!!, but that's just my thoughts.

As to how to say bagel, I say it bay-gel, but I know some people that say it bah-gel (like the word bag, but with "el" at the end). I also know quite a few people that say "melk" and "pellow." I don't know if that's considered a "michigan accent", but I do live in Michigan and know a few people that do that (but not me).

[Katie Reynolds]

Originally posted by AmyBeth330


dahg...how is that unusual? In California dialect there is no difference between "ah" and "aw"....for example, the vowels in "hot" and "dog" are pronounced exactly the same....none of this "hat dowg" stuff. BTW.....are "bayg" "rayg" "flayg" "melk" and "pellow" michigan? i have two or three friends that consistently say those (all born and raised in socal), and i had no idea where those came from. Also..."bay-ghel" is not unusual...is it? i don't think i've ever heard it pronounced any other way.

Other quick questions....do you write with a "pen" or a "pin?"
And do you send letters in "envelopes" "invelopes" or "onvelopes"?
Is your greatest fear "nuclear" war or "nucular" war?
what do you call your grandparents?
do you write "grey" or "gray"?
do you eat "donuts" or "doughnuts"?

I guess I should say that I say "bag-ghel" instead of "bay-ghel"

I write with a "pen"
I send letters in "envelopes"
My fear is "New-cle-ar" weapons
Grandma and grandpa on my mom's side, Nana and Papa on my dad's side
I write "Grey"
I eat "doughnuts"



- Katie

[Jnadke]

Hmmm... certainly nothing strange about that. Nothing that I know of anyways...

There really aren't any idioms that I use... except for 'bubbler'.


pen.
envelopes.
nuclear.
grandma/grandpa
gray.
donut.

[Melancholy]

Long Islanders do NOT have accents! It's everyone else, I swear! Yeah, so some guy found out I was from Long Island and he's like "Come on, say hot dahg. Come on! Say it!" So I say hot dog the way it's SUPPOSED to be pronounced, and he repeats back to me "Hahaha! Hot dawg!! That's so funny!" and he was having the time of his life from it but i just dont get it...

[Katie Reynolds]

Originally posted by Melancholy
Long Islanders do NOT have accents! It's everyone else, I swear! Yeah, so some guy found out I was from Long Island and he's like "Come on, say hot dahg. Come on! Say it!" So I say hot dog the way it's SUPPOSED to be pronounced, and he repeats back to me "Hahaha! Hot dawg!! That's so funny!" and he was having the time of his life from it but i just dont get it...

They do so! It's people in Wisconsin without accents! People go to school to learn to speak like us!

- Katie