The accents hit me this week while visiting Hawaii. I could pick out where
tourist were from in the Southern U.S. were from by their accents. I can
generally pick out a person's region of the Gulf Coast states by their
accents.
South Carolina accents are my personal favorites.
Penny
Amherst
Massachusetts, our speech and pronunciation was just too mixed up!Sg
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accents hit me this week while visiting Hawaii. I could pick out where
01, 2008 9:07 AM
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Trust an American not to know the difference between Yorkshire and Cockney
accents! I believe Bernard Cornwell originally created Sharpe as a Londoner,
but Sean Bean comes from Sheffield.
Can you tell
Trust an American not to know the difference between Yorkshire and Cockney
accents! I believe Bernard Cornwell originally created Sharpe as a Londoner,
but Sean Bean comes from Sheffield.
Can you tell the difference between a Michigan accent and a Pennsylvania
accent?
How about Kentucky and
I went and checked with my husband about the original books, I assume
that's what the writer was referring to. But it would be worrying if
people then listened to Sean Bean's accent and thought Ah, that's what
Cockney is!
Jean
Kate M Bunting wrote:
Trust an American not to know the
well, the Yunzers of Pittsburg probably would!
Kathleen
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Well, if someone is PA Dutch or from
Or from Pittsburgh, y'uns.
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Well, if someone is PA Dutch or from Western PA
in Britain and
some American accents, usually in rural areas.
Cindy Abel
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And Kentucky is different than Tennessee. :) For the most part, the
same is said about every state/region.
Sarah K
Wisconsin (but have been asked on a number of occasions if I were from
Canada!)
Well, if someone is PA Dutch or from Western PA or from South
Philadelphia,
you should be
. The accent is similar, apparently.
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Sometimes it is difficult to pick up accents and how
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There's an island off the Carolina coast, which, until they got a bridge and
satellite TV, had an almost perfect version of a 16th century eastern
English accent
**
Ocracoke Island
a
surviving 16th century accent were in fact settled in that period!
Ron Carnegie
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Trust an American not to know the difference between Yorkshire and
Cockney accents! I believe Bernard Cornwell originally created Sharpe as a
Londoner, but Sean Bean comes from Sheffield.
Saragrace wrote:
I know this may start a firestorm, but I saw this and was wondering why it had
In a message dated 3/31/2008 5:02:45 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
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Trust an American not to know the difference between Yorkshire and Cockney
accents!
*
And can you tell someone from Alabama from someone from North Carolina? I
can
Maybe the writer hasn't actually seen the series, but
has read the books? we'll never know.
MaggiRos
who can tell the difference between the accents
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Trust an American not to know the difference
between Yorkshire and Cockney accents! I
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