Then I lived in New Jersey. It's the shore there, and I think only in Jersey it's the shore. Weird, but you adjust.
Then I moved to Florida. People here say IN surance. Where in Connecticut we say insurance, all one word. That is one word that drives me crazy here. being i am from the insurance state of Connecticut.
You have insurance, youhave subs, grinders, wedges, heroes, liquor store vs package store. by the way connecticut's packie as we used to call em close at 8 pm daily. what other state does that? we sell all our booze in one location. not some here and some there. in colorado they had 3.2 beer. that was horrible. 3.2 beer, 3.2 bars, it was crazy. is it still that way?
then here people saying fixin. what exactly does fixin mean? where i come from it would be fixing, and that would mean y ou have to or are repairing something. ya'll is ok, it's common and growing up when you heard an accent you knew ya'll was part of it.
i am used to them all. it started when i moved to colorado at 18 and i'm now 47, so i've heard it all. i mean in new york and new jersey the word pisser is used. and the phrase she's a piece of work is also common.
we can forget about our accents, as they vary a whole lot more than even we know. i had no idea i had any accent. i knew new york did, i knew boston did, and chicago and down soouth, but when i moved to jersey i had no clue i had an accent, but everyone noticed it.
we can't be so critical of what other people do. mistakes in pronunciation, it's all our backgrounds and what we have heard growing up. sometimes we just do not realize it. things just replicate themselves.
just wanted to say i loved this test. as much as i feel like a country girl, love my country/western music, feel like sometimes i am more redneck than yankee, my word pronunciations and my dialect says otherwise
be proud of what you are. be proud of who you know. they may be different, and be tolerant. we are a melting pot after all.
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