Show us your accent (Part I)

[TallasLint]

Yea, I get made fun of for the way I say Library. "Libary"

Also, words with the short I sound (pillow, milk, Illinois) people tend to pronounce differently. Personally, I say Pellow and melk and Ellinois.

[Warrior4Christ]

Wow! So many alternate pronounciations I never knew existed...

I've also noted which ones in the list are confirmed to be contraversial or hilarious (most likely to be chosen), and if anyone can confirm the remainder, I'll note them as well.

when's part two coming up?

Um... it was originally a week from the opening of this thread, but it may be earlier/later as necessary.

[FadedOne]

Yea, I get made fun of for the way I say Library. "Libary"

ooooh..i do that too!

another thing i just thought of. I tend to slur the ends of some words. for example, tallas mentioned 'pillow' and that reminded me of how i pronounce it....'pill-ah'. as well as yell-ah(yellow).

and i tend to say 'ah' instead of 'I'

o.o I think i'm a closet southerner!

(linguistics is awesome)

[ashfire]

Being that I was born in North Carolina, I picked up a little accent from my father being that he was born there too, but my mother is from Ohio so I picked that up too, but living in Maryland I picked up from those around me.
If any family calls from NC you can hear the southern accent has soon has they start talking.
If I travel to my brother's house in Shenandoah County, Virginia you can hear a different southern accent there compared to NC.
I guess if you travel farther south you can hear the accent change in other states.

[Doubleshadow]

ooooh..i do that too!

another thing i just thought of. I tend to slur the ends of some words. for example, tallas mentioned 'pillow' and that reminded me of how i pronounce it....'pill-ah'. as well as yell-ah(yellow).

and i tend to say 'ah' instead of 'I'

o.o I think i'm a closet southerner!

(linguistics is awesome)

Yup, you are. Maybe I have met you in real life and I don't know it?

I live on the Ohio River, which for those of you who don't know, is the border river between Ohio and West Virginia. I went to a church camp in central Ohio as a counselor with the youth group from the church I go to in Ohio. Apparently, word leaked out that I was actually from West Virginia and two girls were debating whether or not it was true. Those two girls came up to me and my friend Elizabeth from southern Ohio and said to Elizabeth,

"Say the name of the river where you live. Don't think about it, just say it."

She said, "The Ohio (Oh-HI-ah) River?" (southern Ohio accent)

Then they looked at me and said, "Now you say it."

I said, "The Ohio (Oh-HI-oh) River." (West Virginia accent)

Then one girl looked at the other and said, "See? I told you she [meaning me] was from West Virginia."

The first girl had used the differences in how we pronounced the name of the river to prove I was from West Virgina because anyone from my church who was from Ohio would have said oh-Hi-ah. Even though I go over the river a lot (church and Wal-Mart), I don't have the accent. Elizabeth and I both live wthin 15 minutes of the river and are therefore only a half an hour apart at best. Yet our accents are distinct enough that people who know about our accents can tell where we are from by them.
My accent is technically, I think, the Ohio Valley version of the Appalachian accent (Appalachia is another word pronounced differently by people who live there: ah-puh-lah-chah to locals like me, ah-puh-lay-shah to everyone else). It's like an American Southern but harsher. My Dad just calls it a Hick accent.

[Tenshi no Ai]

Adding...

mobile (I say it both ways cause I never know how to say it v_v usually try and keep the 'i' silent)
potato
tomato

[ashfire]

Here is something about a town in the county where I live.
The town of Bowie. I have heard people say BOW EE or Bouy. The town come out more Bouy.
I guess if you have to deal with accents try saying some of the names of towns or areas in my county.
Piscataway
Accokeek
Oxon Hill
Baden
Cheltenham
Silesia

[TurkishMonky]

i didn't see it, so i've heard sorry pronounced
zar-e
sore-e
and sar-e
there was one other one, but i forgot it....

EDIT:
here's another:
zank you (THank you)

[soul alive]

Not a suggestion to add to the list, but it's interresting to see how people pronounced things years and years ago, epsecially in Wyoming.

There's a small town in Wyoming named 'Dubois.' If I'm not mistaken the traditional pronounciation of that should be "doo-bwa" or something similar. But we pronounce it "doo-boiz." My high school principal's name was also "Lacroix," pronounced "La-kroy" rather than "La-craw."

XD We're fun like that, we Wyomingites.

(and for clarification, I'm from Wyoming going to college in Montana)

[mitsuki lover]

Then there's the joke of the couple from back east who were travelling through Idaho and when told it was pronounced I-DAH-HOE the men responds by saying:
"We always called it I-OW-A!"

[Kiba-kun]

add thrice to the list! i pronouce it kinda like how Krad would off of DNAngel with that funny little accent

[Kaligraphic]

weary

[mitsuki lover]

I didn't know I even had an accent until I started talking to people.

[Kaligraphic]

When you aren't talking, you don't. It's the speech that's accented.

[PrincessZelda]

I don't really have much of an accent... >_>

[mitsuki lover]

That's what I mean,I didn't know I had an accent until people start telling me.Evidently I don'tpronounce some words the same way as most people do in the Northwest.I have been told that I have anywhere from a Pennsylvanian to a New York state to a Ohio type of accent.But when it gets down to it it's more like a Upper Midwestern/Northern type accent.
Think of the movie FARGO.

[Warrior4Christ]

Three more:

Amen (ay-men or ar-men)
simultaneously (sy-mul-tan-e-ous-ly or sim-ul-tan-e-ous-ly)
news (nyuz or nooz)

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I have decided the final list to be as below:
-pecan
-a[ir/ero]plane
-alumin[i]um
-I got better!
-wall scroll
-nuclear
-cellphone
-mischievous
-straightener
-scenic route
-accent
-wash
-job
-milk
-y'all
-wrestle
-alright
-sure
-vase
-lever
-boots
-warmer
-roof
-rural areas
-coupons
-colo[u]red
-caramel
-thrice
-elevator
-scriptures
-oil
-yellow
-white
-garage
-armadillo
-umbrella
-riot
-fire
-creek
-library
-wolf
-exit
-Amen
-pillow
-mobile
-potato
-tomato
-sorry
-thankyou
-weary
-Canberra
-Australia
-Arkansas
-Ohio
-Houston
-Illinois
-Wisconsin
-Tennessee
-Missouri
-West Virginia

There are 60 words/groups of words, so if I takes about 1.5 seconds to say each one, then that's 1.5 minutes in total. If you think there's a word that should be on there and isn't, then let me know and I'll consider adding it (I don't want to make it too much longer). Likewise with words that you think shouldn't be on there. (This should happen before I open the Part II thread.)

If we call the above List 1, then we can use the "Please call Stella" thing as List 2. So when you record your voice, you can choose to read one or both lists (in separate files), and label the sound file(s) appropriately.

Please call Stella. Ask her to bring these things with her from the store: Six spoons of fresh snow peas, five thick slabs of blue cheese, and maybe a snack for her brother Bob. We also need a small plastic snake and a big toy frog for the kids. She can scoop these things into three red bags, and we will go meet her Wednesday at the train station.

You guys do realise that I'll be really disappointed if I don't hear some strange pronounciations for these...

[Ratrace]

60 words is still dull to read, though, or is that just me? Some accents dont realy show in single words. I was kind of hopeing for the phrase 'Like we say in Missouri, I'm not going back to Missouri!', but oh well.

[Doe Johnson]

Has anyone else started recording theirs yet? I have. I even made a blooper real of me just saying random stuff that came to my mind. There's even a bit in there for Robert Jordan fans, lol.

My times rounded:
List 1 - 1:30
List 2 (Stella) - :20
Bloopers (hehe, had to include them) - :50

[Warrior4Christ]

My brother (Warrior 4 Jesus) has recorded his.

His times:
List 1 - 1:18
List 2 - 0:23

Also, bloopers = good!

I guess I'll open the Part II thread now. (list finalised)

I'll record mine soon too.