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In reply to the discussion: What is your favorite American English dialect? [View all]aikoaiko
(34,127 posts)49. Coastal Southern -- particularly the Savannah variety.
Last edited Sun Jan 8, 2012, 05:59 PM - Edit history (1)
Now that I married a southern woman and our son speaks this way, I better love it.
Funny story. My son comes home from preschool with a new saying from his teacher. When a child is unhappy with something he or she got for lunch, she would say, "You get what you get and don't have a fit." And my wife said it was a nice rhyme.
I looked at her and said that it only rhymes in the south and she didn't get it for a long time.
As someone born and raised in northeastern NJ, I have always hated the Jersey accent. In high school, my friends and I would correct each other so that we didn't sound like that.
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When we lived in Pittsburgh my SIL told me I have a California accent.
Still Blue in PDX
Jan 2012
#45
Across a thin strip of Northern Ohio there still can be found a strong influence of the speech
Ikonoklast
Jan 2012
#19
Standard American, the goal toward which all educated speakers strive, but a tip of the hat to
dimbear
Jan 2012
#8
I like the Boston accent because it reminds me of the Kennedys. I've also been to Boston twice and
applegrove
Jan 2012
#13
I like the accents in CA (since we don't have accents) LOL! However, if I had to choose an actual
nirvana555
Jan 2012
#16
Not one person has mentioned the New York, Brooklyn, Bronx or Queens accent
Sanity Claws
Jan 2012
#33
Whatever it was in the movie "Fargo." Is that Minnesota? Also, cajun accent. nt
Honeycombe8
Jan 2012
#40
That's it! N Dakota! So you live in Fargo? How cool is that? Literally cool.
Honeycombe8
Jan 2012
#46