CAA: Christian Anime Alliance

The purpose of this thread is to make suggestions of words to add to a list, which people will read out in their natural accent (which you record and post a link to) in the Part II thread. The words are usually chosen because they are difficult to say or sound funny in certain accents. This thread will be open for suggestions for, say, a week, then the Part II thread will be opened.


Final lists

List 1:
-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


List 2:
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.



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The complete list of suggested words/phrases will be kept updated in this post:
-PECAN

-Canberra
-Brisbane
-wash
-job
-a[ir/ero]plane
-alumin[i]um
-Australia
-Kosziusko
God
guard
-I got better!
-milk
-y'all
-Amen
-simultaneously
-news

-wall scroll

Eau claire
nuclear
boysenberry
tamale
Poland
Olesno
Kedzierzyn-Kozle
howdy
cellphone
Star Wars
Nintendo
cielosantiguos

accent
toads
olive
hello
good bye
champagne
oyster
cod fish
smile
Googly Bear
oro?
pickles
music
fingers
onions
printer
deskjet
computer
foxes
reinyards
kits
mommy foxes
daddy foxes
baby foxes
grandma foxes
grandpa foxes
cousin billy foxes
-Arkansas
Pepsi
cannon
hat
-wrestle

boundary
area
bull
Spanish
basketball

-Ohio
-alright
-sure

-thesaurus
-lever
Bob
-squirrel
-like
-lake
-vase
-narrator

-mischievous
-boots
-straightener
-warmer
-spangle-mangled manderwengle

-roof
-been
-Route 1 Box 52
-Scenic Route
-What route are you taking?
-rural areas
-coupons
-colo[u]red
-Benjamin

popalu
Linolium
-caramel
-thrice

laboratory
white
when
elevator
levy

-right here
-right there
-scriptures
-Houston
-isn't
-business
-oil

-yellow
-white
-garage
-amarillo
-armadillo

capillary
Rio Grande
umbrella
-Missouri

-riot
-fire

-Wisconsin
-Tennesee
-West Virgina

-creek
-library
-wolf
-exit

-pillow
-Illinois

-mobile
-potato
-tomato

-Bowie
-Piscataway
-Accokeek
-Oxon Hill
-Baden
-Cheltenham
-Silesia

-sorry
-thankyou

-weary


The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain.

Moses supposes his toes are roses but Moses supposes erroneously. Moses knows his toes aren’t the roses that Moses supposes his toes to be.

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.

- Confirmed contraversial/hilarious

You should hear Hope/dragonshimmer say "wall scroll." It's hilarity, I assure you. XD

Anyway, I'll put mine up in a while.

Eau claire
Nuclear
boysenberry
tamale


Uh..thats all I got for now.

My Accent?
[ ' ]

heres some:
Poland
Olesno
Kedzierzyn-Kozle
Howdy
Cellphone
Star Wars
Nintendo
cielosantiguos

I don't have an accent. My state is known for not having an accent.. ^^;

ACCENT!

TOADS!

OLIVE

HELLO!

GOOD BYE!

CHAMPAGNE!!!

OYSTER!

COD FISH

SMILE!

GOOGLY BEAR!

ORO!

PICKLES!

MUSIC!

FINGERS!

ONIONS!

PRINTER!

DESKJET!

COMPUTER!

FOXES!

FOXES!

Reinyards!

Kits!

MOMMY FOXES!

DADDY FOXES

BABY FOXES

GRANDMA FOXES!

GRANDPA FOXES!

COUSIN BILLY FOXES!!

WHEE THIS IS FUN FOXES!!!

I WILL STOP NOW!

Maybe:
Boundary
Area
Bull
Spanish
Basketball

[quote="ChristianRonin"]I don't have an accent. My state is known for not having an accent.. ^^]

Everyone has an accent.
If you were to leave your state and go somewhere else...the people from that somewhere else would know you were not from there because your accent would not be like theirs...

I am a native Californian....but, people do not believe me because they say I have a "strange" accent...which is probably because I was a military brat and lived other places (ie. Wales, Mississippi....) for many years before returning and staying in California.

well..i know, words that i get teased for are 'Ohio' and 'all right'. I say them funny apparently. XD i know there's others too 'cause ive heard comments on my 'cute accent' before, but it takes me a bit to figure out waht people mean!

[quote="ChristianRonin"]I don't have an accent. My state is known for not having an accent.. ^^]

They say that about Californians but they forget about "Valley girls"

Hmm... The ones people usually make fun of me for are: mischievous, boots, straightener, warmer, and spangle-mangled manderwengle. Will those work?

Locke wrote:They say that about Californians but they forget about "Valley girls"

Ok, let's hear your best Valley girl accent, Locke.

Fionn Fael wrote:Hmm... The ones people usually make fun of me for are: mischievous, boots, straightener, warmer, and spangle-mangled manderwengle. Will those work?

So.. how many times a day do you say "spangle-mangled manderwengle"?

hmm...I can't think of many right now

roof
been
route: (because sometimes different versions are said in different circumstances)
Route 1 Box 52
Scenic Route
What route are you taking?

that's all I can think of right now.

OH

You forgot the NUMBER ONE word to distinguish accents...

PECAN.

here's a few to add:

popalu
Linolium
carmel

one I can never seem to pronounce with or without an accent:

rural

just how are you supposed to get that off your tongue?! it doesn't come out half the time!

The Speech Accent Archive uses this paragraph:

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.

laboratory, white, when, elevator, levy... *flings dictionary into someone*

If you want to tell how old school a Texan is, have him/her say the following:

Right Here (Rat Cheer)
Right There (Rat Chair)
Scriptures (Scrip Chewers)
Houston (Yewstin)
Isn't (Idn't)
Business (Bidness)

Yellow
White
Garage
Amarillo
Armadillo

My mother has trouble saying all of them.

As for myself, I don't think I have trouble saying any of those words, and for the record, I say "pecan" as puh-con.

I think this is a great idea, though I really don't think my accent is strange.

Xeno wrote: and for the record, I say "pecan" as puh-con.

Just for the record, I say "pecan" as pee-can. Ya'll can tell I'm from down south.

Doe Johnson wrote:one I can never seem to pronounce with or without an accent:

rural

just how are you supposed to get that off your tongue?! it doesn't come out half the time!

I completely agree, that word sets you up for failure as soon as you try to say it.

And Caramel is as controversial as Pecan. I say /car-mel/, and I don't know what region that comes from since I grew up in TX, but my parents are northerners

Definitely pecan. Also:
capillary
Rio Grande
umbrella
Missouri

mastersquirrel wrote:


Just for the record, I say "pecan" as pee-can. Ya'll can tell I'm from down south.

I don't think I've ever heard anyone say it that way. If someone said "pee-can" most people would probably think they were talking about the toilet. But I digress...

Riot
Fire

How many words are people supposed to say!? With a list that long, you better either condense it or make up a story using the words you want people to use. Simply reading the list of all those words would bore the people listening to the list being read and the people doing the reading.

Puritan wrote:you better... make up a story using the words...

well! you do that then!

Alright, but don't complain at its quality. It's hard to make a good story with such strange words!

It was the summer right before I started my new job. I money to spare, and I wasn’t interested in washing cars, so I decided to take a trip. Specifically, I decided to take a trip around the world, but I wanted to keep it as inexpensive as possible. My itinerary was a follows: Eau Claire to Chicago, Chicago to Poland where I would visit Olesno and Kedzierzyn-Kozle, then to Australia where I would visit Brisbane and Canberra, and then from there to Ohio, where my new job with an aluminum manufacturing company was located. I woke up the morning of my trip, said goodbye to my parents, asked for God’s protection on my journey, drank some milk, and set out to the airport. I boarded my airplane, and was greeted by a stewardess with a saccharine smile and a bizarre accent. “Hello, and welcome to Googly Bear airlines, flight 750. The inflight meal for our trip to Poland will be your choice of: boysenberry tamales, cod fish with oysters, olive sautéed oysters, or caramel onions with champagne or soda to drinkâ€

Warrior4Christ wrote:The purpose of this thread is to make suggestions of words to add to a list, which people will read out in their natural accent (which you record and post a link to) in the Part II thread. The words are usually chosen because they are difficult to say or sound funny in certain accents. This thread will be open for suggestions for, say, a week, then the Part II thread will be opened.

The complete list of suggested words/phrases will be kept updated in this post:
PECAN

Canberra
Brisbane
wash
job
a[ir/ero]plane
alumin[i]um
Australia
Kosziusko
God
guard
I got better!
milk
y'all

wall scroll

Eau claire
nuclear
boysenberry
tamale
Poland
Olesno
Kedzierzyn-Kozle
howdy
cellphone
Star Wars
Nintendo
cielosantiguos

accent
toads
olive
hello
good bye
champagne
oyster
cod fish
smile
Googly Bear
oro?
pickles
music
fingers
onions
printer
deskjet
computer
foxes
reinyards
kits
mommy foxes
daddy foxes
baby foxes
grandma foxes
grandpa foxes
cousin billy foxes

boundary
area
bull
Spanish
basketball

Ohio
alright

thesaurus
lever
Bob
squirrel
like
lake

mischievous
boots
straightener
warmer
spangle-mangled manderwengle

roof
been
Route 1 Box 52
Scenic Route
What route are you taking?
rural areas

popalu
Linolium
carmel

You could add Missouri to the list.
I don't have a way of recording my actual voice online.

Others known to have odd pronunciations:

coupons
colored
wash
Benjamin

[quote="Puritan"]Alright, but don't complain at its quality. It's hard to make a good story with such strange words!

It was the summer right before I started my new job. I money to spare, and I wasn’t interested in washing cars, so I decided to take a trip. Specifically, I decided to take a trip around the world, but I wanted to keep it as inexpensive as possible. My itinerary was a follows: Eau Claire to Chicago, Chicago to Poland where I would visit Olesno and Kedzierzyn-Kozle, then to Australia where I would visit Brisbane and Canberra, and then from there to Ohio, where my new job with an aluminum manufacturing company was located. I woke up the morning of my trip, said goodbye to my parents, asked for God’s protection on my journey, drank some milk, and set out to the airport. I boarded my airplane, and was greeted by a stewardess with a saccharine smile and a bizarre accent. “Hello, and welcome to Googly Bear airlines, flight 750. The inflight meal for our trip to Poland will be your choice of: boysenberry tamales, cod fish with oysters, olive sautéed oysters, or caramel onions with champagne or soda to drinkâ€