Lynn, This site is a hoot! Yes, lots of people around here DO talk
like that -- not so much the college-educated ones, but definitely
the clerks at "Walmart's"! (One addition: He wonders why it's "ink
pen". Undoubtedly that is a result of the immigration of factory
workers from the South, where some dialects have the same vowel in
"pen" as in "pin." Since you don't want a lace-making pin to write a
check with, you'd have to specify an "ink pen."
An awful lot depends on the family you were brought up in, too. My
father originally wanted to be a radio announcer, so he taught
himself "standard American" instead of "rural western Ohio" in the
30's, so we learned a relatively neutral dialect. Lots of people in
my home town in Ohio did say "warsh" and "punkin" (pumpkin) - but it
was never heard from any of my family. Dad spent his life as an
industrial power salesman for the electric utility, rather than on
the radio, but undoubtedly the higher-class accent was a useful thing
for him in that as well.
At 9:31 PM -0400 5/30/05, Lynn Carpenter wrote:
"Jean Nathan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I don't know about anyone else, but when I read the emails from the list,
Tamara, Joy, Lynn, Pam, Joy and everyone else have all written them in a
slight 'East End of London' accent because that's how I speak so that's how
I read them.
And I mostly "hear" you guys (that's Michigan-accent for "y'all") with my
undetectable-to-me "Michigan accent".
http://www.michigannative.com/ma_home.shtml
:)
Lynn Carpenter in SW Michigan, USA
alwen at i2k dot com
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