Question of dialect
Question of dialect
I have this strange habbit of pronouncing the word "bag" as "beg" and "wagon" as "wai-gon." Does anyone know where this dialect comes from?
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Re: Question of dialect
Example A sounds like upper-class England to me: the actress playing Lady Bracknell, in Oscar Wilde's /The Importance of Being Earnest/, will normally exclaim: 'a hend-beg?'I have this strange habbit of pronouncing the word "bag" as "beg" and "wagon" as "wai-gon." Does anyone know where this dialect comes from?
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Shifty vowels
There are several dialect where [ae] > [e]: Australia/New Zealand and New York-Philadelphia corridor. In New Zealand, the [e] also goes to (bed and bid are pronounced the same).
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The former CEO of my former company (we were acquired by another company before he left) had a tendency to pronounce things just as estacio has inquired. I never asked him where he was from ("Ain't from around here, are ya feller?"), but for some reason I always suspected he was either from the Northeastern US and had overcome those particular dialectical tendencies, but still had some markers here and there, or was from California. I believe I've heard Californians who tend to speak this way too.
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Welcome, 'Melanie!I talk like that too. I'm from the Great Lakes area (western New York)
One of my brothers moved from the DC area to Skaneateles after high school to chase a girlfriend who later dumped him. He moved around NY a bit, finally settling down south in Oneonta.
Stick around! You'll like it here!
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Can I have a beg, please?
Don't know where you picked it up, but it sounds like the Midwest to me. Minnesotans say bag that way all the time...
One more thing: )
Forgot to say: the way you say wagon also strikes me as benig from the Midwest. Do you have Scandinavian ancestry? That's why Minnesotans elongate their vowels that way.
I was born in the midwest and pronounce wagon properly, so did everyone I knew there. I never noticed much of an accent while there, I blended right in, keep in mind I was born there but spent a lot of time in the south then moved to Minneapolis for high school/college.
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maybe because we were always surrounded by so many people with such diverse accents.
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maybe because we were always surrounded by so many people with such diverse accents.
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