Mapping how Americans Talk

[walkin jack]

A few things you might hear in deep East Texas:
.Mamanem. When you go back home tomorrow be sure and and say hello to your mamanem.

.ort/all. You ort to check the all in your car often.

. aholt. When I misbehaved my mama used to grab right aholt of me.

 

[R. G. Amos]

In Georgia my father instead of "thanks" said "much obliged". I have never heard that term used anywhere else.

 

[Gunsnwater]

I'm from Joisey, we don't have an accent.

They won't even let you have that?

 

[Gunsnwater]

Does anyone BESIDES people from Pennsylvania "red off the table"?

Go red up your room and shut off the light.

 

[LouisianaJoe]

Soft drink, Po-Boy, Loo-zee-anna, New Or lens. You can go 10 miles and this all changes.

 

[A10]

I think I say daawg. Its funny trying to talk, when you are trying to listen to how you say it.

Purty much dowg fer me.....

 

[Kframerbluvr]

Purty much dowg fer me.....

Dogue - Eastern VA for "dog"

 

[Alpo]

Go red up your room and shut off the light.

My wife's parents were from there. They said it, their kids said it, and my daughter learned it from my wife. I thought her parents had made it up.

Then I saw a Quantum Leap episode, with a Pennsylvania Dutch maid. She said she'd do the laundry, but first she had to red off the table.

Must be a real term.

 

[SweetMK]

I'm from Massachusetts, where you buy beer at a "packie", a State Trooper is a "Statie" and the letter r is not pronounced as a rule. When I was a young teenager one of my neighborhood buddies came home from Ft. Hood on leave, and brought his girlfriend and her sisters from Texas home for a visit. I remember how much I liked listening to them talk, pretty and those Southern accents. Since then I have had an interest in accents, slang and dialect.

When I lived in MA (two years), we found the "R" rule to be;
If it ended in "R", drop the "R"
If it ended in "A", add an "R"
Also, many "R's" are dropped

I want to eat! Pawk the ca in the pawking lot, so we can get some pitzer.

 

[Road Rat]

Closer to home, look at how owners of different gun makes communicate. On Gl*@k Talk at least once on every page someone starts a thread with "LEARN ME BOUT......." That is a term that is noticeably absent with S&W owners.

Those are uneducated folks from the East Coast that dropped out of school shortly after kindergarten............

 

[Bill Bates]

I'm sure with time the map will change. I know since I first moved to Utah in 1967 it has changed here, somewhat. In 1967 when I moved here it was pop and hero (the heros were boring and pretty much sucked). Now you hear coke and sub.

Utah also has at least two defined accents and the border is between Springville and Spanish Fork, Utah or the more rural the more you get something that is referred to as "overhomer." In rural Utah people will say, "over t home we do it this way or I'm headed over t home." You hear: I seen it; be'in as and a crick is a small stream. "Ts" drop out of words so kitten sounds like ki en and it is Sal Lake Ci y" oh and that town Spanish Fork is Spanish Fark, the town Hurricane in Southern Utah is Hurrikin or maybe Herkin. Warm is a w sound with an arm not war with m. They hunt Ciyots.

So you might hear, "Over to home I seen a friken ciyot up by the crik. Darned if I didn leaf my gun in the pickup. Then be in as it (silent t) were pur y w arm I got me a coke down in Hurrikin." That Coke could be a Dr. Pepper, Pepsi but more likely a Mt. Dew.

So in Utah if you hear "over t home" you know your talking to someone older that grew up between Spanish Fork and St George, Utah.

 

[WardenRoss]

Howdy All Y'all,

I wuz ray-esd rite-chair in Jaw-ja. Gowin by the fellen-station my Daddy would git me a Co-Coalar when I wuz a kid. We wood put some pee-nuts in the Co-Coaler fur a snack.

Pee-can pie is my favrite dee-sert. My Granny wood cook mee a pee-can pie, ever Thanksgivin when we wood go burd huntin. She wood also make me a Pineapple samich with marnase on lite bread for when we took a rest in the feeled.

Miss my Granny and miss huntin wiff mugh Daddy. Ever once in a while the letter carrier weel drop off a In-Arr-eigh magga-zeen wiff huntin pitchers that make me recco-lect my boy-hood times.

Y'all do sue-port that In-Arr-eigh, as much as ya can. They are nowne to hep us keep our gun rites.

Bess All-Y'all!

 

[BrianE]

I say "wicked" a lot, which is a thing here in MA.

I mentioned to a person in Ohio I was getting a grinder for lunch and he looked really confused, as if I was talking about a tool , they called 'em subs, hogies or something..

My brother who lives in SC told me to cut off the lights and I just stared at him for a min.. he laughed and said I forget ya'll don't talk like that so "shut" off the lights please... I think I was like 10 or so...

 

[Alpo]

Pineapple sammich? Wow. How long she drain it, 'fore it wouldn't soak through the bread?

Back when I was in Nurs-ry School (we didn't have kindergarten) they fed us naner sammiches. I unnerstand Elvis preferred banana and peanut butter, but these was sliced (cross-wise, not length-wise) naners on ma-naise, on light bread.

But pineapple? Never heard-a sucha thing.

 

[coltle6920]

Call them bananas...Call them nanners...I guess when you're not sure what to call them we end up with this...