NationStates Jolt Archive

Which one do you have?
Which one do you hate?

Can include videos or soud clips of you, or people who have accents similar to you, or people who have accents you hate.

Only people born in English speaking countries are fair game for ridicule. These are my rules.

I don't have a hick accent, unless you consider the San Francisco Bay Area (from which my accent derives) to be a hick place. Most redneck accents annoy me if it's really hard and sharp. New York accents really annoy me, actually, if this is the case (though New Yorkers are not hicks by any sense). I don't mind most accents if the person's voice is low/soft/mellow.

Naturally, I have an accent, but I've learned to hide it from the people I'm around now. But when I'm back in the UP, I revert back to my native Yooperese.

Oh, I'm the opposite. My accent comes out more when I'm with people who are not from the bay area. I also tend to say "hella" and other local slang more. I don't know, it's like a subconcious declaration of allegiance or identity or something like that. Odd.

I wanna hear:p the hicks

Slight Texas accent with a little generic southerner added. Mine's not really heavy and I find it hard to understand folks with heavy Texas accents. And I do use "y'all" with great frequency.

Slight Texas accent with a little generic southerner added. Mine's not really heavy and I find it hard to understand folks with heavy Texas accents. And I do use "y'all" with great frequency.

At least you have a right to say it. It's really annoying when people from here say it. Basically just like "wtf do you think you're doing? You're not from texas."

Since English doesn't have a seperate plural form of "you", it makes "y'all" seem quite reasonable. Fills a gap.

Northern Midwest accent.

I sound normal untill I speak a few words like for, which I'm told I pronounce as "fer". I'm also told I tend to make my capital O sounds very drawn out and they sound nasally. I've lived in Virginia for so long though that I've started picking up a southern one with the southern slang too. I say, "fixin' " a lot.

I"m from Denver, living In minnesota, and the only "accent" i have is the Deaf Guy Accent, 'cuz I'm hearing impaired. :p

Naturally, I have an accent, but I've learned to hide it from the people I'm around now. But when I'm back in the UP, I revert back to my native Yooperese.

whereabouts in the UP are you from?

Northern Midwest accent.

youse got da up nort dere accent?

Since English doesn't have a seperate plural form of "you", it makes "y'all" seem quite reasonable. Fills a gap.

Never sounded right to me. To me, you is plural as well as singular. And it sounds horrible when anyone who's not a southerner says it. And even then sometimes.

But then, you'd probably thing "hella" is an abomination. ;)

Since English doesn't have a seperate plural form of "you", it makes "y'all" seem quite reasonable. Fills a gap.
indeed. I use it for that purpose because it really annoys not to have a different word for Du/Sie (you, singular) and ihr (you, plural)

If you do not pronounce "Soda" as "Soder", your accent is pretty much ok with me.

nope, Philadelphian Accent

I have an Oklahoma accent, it's slightly different than a Texas accent, I don't have the hookup to record it right now, but if you have ever heard Reba McEntire talk, it's something like that. I can turn it off, for example, when I am singing, or when I used to work in radio, most of the time I can talk and it's hardly noticeable, when I get angry it becomes very thick.

A lot of my extended family is from the South Texas area, and their accents are very thick, and I don't particularly like them. I have a friend from Brooklyn and sometimes his accent is so thick that I can't understand him.

and I do say y'all, when I am not consciously trying not to.

I don't have much of an accent. Perhaps only slightly. When I went to visit my cousin in Michigan, there was only one sound that we pronounced differently from each other, and I'm from Florida. So probably not too much of an accent for either of us, or else the accents from Florida and Michigan (near Detroit, not UP) are pretty similar.

I've somehow managed to pick up a mild south Ohio slur, my speech is no longer as precise as it once was. Not a redneck accent, but certainly not the clipped NEO style I used to have.

At least you have a right to say it. It's really annoying when people from here say it. Basically just like "wtf do you think you're doing? You're not from texas."

How do you think it feels to have all you Americans speaking English?

Since English doesn't have a seperate plural form of "you", it makes "y'all" seem quite reasonable. Fills a gap.

'Yous' does the job, but seems to be a mainly Irish invention.

Frex: 'Go yous down there'.

There is also 'youse' which seems to be more of an American thang.

As in: Hey, youse guys'.

I have a weird surfer/out of date hipster/mushmouth blend accent. I grew up in Northern California, hung out with jazz musicians, read Beat writers, and played a Ninja Turtle for a couple years. This resulted in my current accent. And I mumble, or so I'm told...

There is also 'youse' which seems to be more of an American thang.

As in: Hey, youse guys'.

Irish influence in New York?

Hey youse guys wunna play stickbawl?

Irish influence in New York?

Hey youse guys wunna play stickbawl?

I think you'll find that the correct form is Hey, yous guys wanna play some Hurley?

Since English doesn't have a seperate plural form of "you", it makes "y'all" seem quite reasonable. Fills a gap.

'Yous' does the job, but seems to be a mainly Irish invention.

Frex: 'Go yous down there'.

There is also 'youse' which seems to be more of an American thang.

As in: Hey, youse guys'.

i like as i say youze

i.g. What are youze doing tonite?

I vary it up on the plural you.

You all is my dominant, yo'all sometimes happens, even a y'all here and there.

I think you'll find that the correct form is Hey, yous guys wanna play some Hurley?

Was Hurley an 80's arcade game?

I just say "you", since "you" already is plural. From what I was told in Latin class, it's the singular form of "you" that we no longer have, so we have to say "you" for both the plural and the singular. I don't like the phrases "y'all" or "youse" because "you" is already plural.

Was Hurley an 80's arcade game?

Short casual form of the word 'hurling'.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/Hurling_Ball_and_Hurley.JPG/200px-Hurling_Ball_and_Hurley.JPG
An hurling stick and an hurling ball, today.

I don't like the phrases "y'all" or "youse" because "you" is already plural.

Meaning is use, pal, meaning is use.

Any American accent is annoying.

Since English doesn't have a seperate plural form of "you", it makes "y'all" seem quite reasonable. Fills a gap.

In the North East of England (aka Northumbria) we use 'youse' {like 'ewes'}

Anything American, Scottish, Scouse, Brummie, Cockney or Essex.

Where am I from, we tend to drop our t's on words like mountain, we would say as mounen (En as in End) the name Albertsons we would drop the T and say Albersons.

Meaning is use, pal, meaning is use.

I know. It's just something that annoys me. I thought that that was part of what this thread was about. Accents that use those forms annoy me.

indeed. I use it for that purpose because it really annoys not to have a different word for Du/Sie (you, singular) and ihr (you, plural)

Even with being an American, I agree. I've often ended up saying "Ihr guys come and help!" (subconciously) and they just kinda look at me funny. :(

Other than that, I can fake pretty well a stereotypical (from an American point of view) Russian, Irish, Scottish, and Pythonesque-British. :p

i was born and raised in coastal maine. i have a downeast accent mixed with more standard american midwest accent and a bit of a new mexico lilt. it shows mostly in words with Rs in the middle (like word). its funniest when i hear my son who has only been in maine a handful of times drop an R in certain circumstances.

online i often use "ya" instead of "you" (as in "ya know"). when i want it to be plural i type "yas". in real life i use "y'all" when its appropriate. (which is any time there is a need to emphasize that "you" is plural). its not a maine thing.

Despite being from New Jersey, I've been told I generally lack for an American accent. I certainly do not have the "Joisey" accent that you may have heard of.
Probably comes from having parents who are English Second Language. Though then again, they learned English from the brits.

I have a weird surfer/out of date hipster/mushmouth blend accent. I grew up in Northern California, hung out with jazz musicians, read Beat writers, and played a Ninja Turtle for a couple years. This resulted in my current accent. And I mumble, or so I'm told...

"Aww yeah....I'm gonna butter you like a corn cob";)

I have a mix of Boston English, Central Connecticut Consonant Drop, and a tiny bit of Long Island

i have a reeeaaaallly really posh accent in the vein of "tim, nice but dim", which i have tried very hard to subdue. i know it's not a 'hick' accent but it is fucking stupid sounding. i never realised how stupid til i came to university and heard other people with that accent speaking next to normal people, they just sound so retarded. i also really dislike practially eveyone i have met that has that accent.

oh, american accents. never mind.

Which one do you have?
Which one do you hate?

Can include videos or soud clips of you, or people who have accents similar to you, or people who have accents you hate.

Only people born in English speaking countries are fair game for ridicule. These are my rules.

I wanna hear:p the hicks

Just out of curiosity, would the two of you, and others, still be willing to make those posts if other ethnic slurs were substituted for "hick" -something along the lines of "Which (Abo accents) do you hate?" or "I wanna hear the spics"?

(Note: I'm not at all trying to tell you what to say. I'm actually curious if you've considered the possibility or not. If not, why stop at "hick"? Why not go ahead and be a full spectrum offender?)

I have an Indiana accent, surprisingly enough. Tend to say "Wash" as "Warsh". Why I don't know, it's puzzled me since I was a kid, I couldn't figure out what the difference between a warshing machine and a car wash was. Both had Wash spelled the same way, but were pronounced different.


It's variable though, some people always say Warsh, some never do. I usually don't. I had thought it was a southern Indiana thing but I talk to a guy from north of Indianapolis fairly commonly and he says Warsh too.

The only accent that really bugs me is West Virginian, ya'll sound like hicks!

I can't think of any accent that bothers me; they're all fun to listen to.

As for myself, I have the American "newscaster" accent, save for a slight tendency to pronounce the word "for" as "fer" when speaking quickly.

Oh i am going to do something special for this :D

I am making a little 1 or 2 minute film about how to talk like Zilam :D

hehehe

I don't have a hick accent. I'm from New York, we have cool accents, yo.

I sound like an Ohioan. We're about as "accentless" as it gets in the US.

Which one do you have?
Which one do you hate?

Can include videos or soud clips of you, or people who have accents similar to you, or people who have accents you hate.

Only people born in English speaking countries are fair game for ridicule. These are my rules.

Pidgen English.

fun to speak.

I grew up in Rhode Island, which is first speed talking. I think I was told I drop r's and add w's or something like that.
Also there is no difference in pronounciation of the word picture and pitcher or draw and drawer. We say wicked pronounced like wicket as in "that's wicked awesome" Also "yous guys" was popluar. Sangwhich for sandwhich. Roe Dylan for Rhode Island. etc

When I moved to central ohio everyone sounded like a hick to me, ohio has an accent for sure. It's slower and now I can't think of the differences anymore but when I call ohio friends still, I laugh in my head because they sound different and I know I use to sound the same way.

Now I live in the San Franciso Bay Area in California. "Hella" took the place of my wicked " that's hella sweet" The word Sweet/ or tight now mostly taking over my cool or awesome. People can still detect bits of rhode Island and Ohio though. Although the Rhode Island really comes out when I'm mad.

Slow drawls annoy me because they talk to slow for me and I get bored but I can handle anything else.

I'm from Northern California...so I don't see myself as having much of any accent besides generic American... Although many people have told me that I do have an accent that they cannot place, or at least an odd manner of speech.

In speaking, depending on who I am talking to and what the situation is I go from slurring and mumbling everything I say to precise, almost clipped speech.

I don't have a hick accent, according to Wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_American)I don't have an accent.


This is borne out in an article in the November 1998 issue of National Geographic Magazine, in which the locals' "neutral accents" are cited as one of the reasons why Omaha is home to a large number of telemarketing companies.

I have a Coloradoan accent. Whatever that is.

I am from New York, yet I do not have a New York accent. Why? I'm from Upstate. The closest thing I have to an accent is the way I pronounce New York - Newyork, all one word. All New Yorkers do that, Upstate or Down, Buffalo to NYC, its Newyork.

I am from New York, yet I do not have a New York accent. Why? I'm from Upstate. The closest thing I have to an accent is the way I pronounce New York - Newyork, all one word. All New Yorkers do that, Upstate or Down, Buffalo to NYC, its Newyork....

I'm a native of Long Island now living in New York City, and I say them separately, and so does everyone I know. I have no idea what you're talkin' 'bout.

As a native Pacific Northwesterner, I don't have too much of an accent. My mother, however, was from Rhode Island and I was told when I was learning to talk, I'd pronounce things like her...orange would be "ahrange," my sister Amanda would be "Amander," and I never asked to use the water fountain in elementary school, I'd ask to use the "bubblah." Everyone thought I was weird.

One of the New England things I still enjoy is putting vinegar on my french fries. Mmmmm....and I still get weird looks.

Vinegar in your french fries?!!! :eek:

Blasphemy!

I'm told my mid-Atlantic coast accent is strong with a hint of Upstate New York.

Most notable identifying tag:

Baltimore is pronounced "Balmer or Bawdamor" (I use the latter)

But I absolutely refuse to say "Warshington" when I mean "Washington" and I have trained myself never to say it!

Strangely, when I become angry I start to talk with Mom's West Virginia accent. hmm.

Vinegar in your french fries?!!! :eek:

Blasphemy!

Have you tried it?? It's goooood!

I find women from Texas to have the most revolting accents.

My English isn't marked for region, aside from being broadly American.

Have you tried it?? It's goooood!for puking your guts out...

for puking your guts out...

I've never had that problem. And, like I said, don't knock it 'til you try it.

Anyway, I have noticed that native Arizonans have a bit of a hick accent.

I went simple (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLr6I395Xhc) with it.

But there ya go. How to talk like me! :)

(i just upped it, so it might take a minute to be available) :)

Just out of curiosity, would the two of you, and others, still be willing to make those posts if other ethnic slurs were substituted for "hick" -something along the lines of "Which (Abo accents) do you hate?" or "I wanna hear the spics"?

(Note: I'm not at all trying to tell you what to say. I'm actually curious if you've considered the possibility or not. If not, why stop at "hick"? Why not go ahead and be a full spectrum offender?)

hmmmm, In general I have a big accent fetish.
I grew up in a town with less than 1500 people in it. If any one is a hick I am but I have sort of a broadcasters' standard accent.
Hick doesn't even discribe the majority of these accents (New Jersey, Texan...) so yeah it was a bad word choice on me. But what word to use in its place? I think I like hick best. Plus, there is that I'm a hick so I can't hate hicks factor to it. ( by the way I don't even know what some of the words you wrote mean. Abo???? )

...

I'm a native of Long Island now living in New York City, and I say them separately, and so does everyone I know. I have no idea what you're talkin' 'bout.

Hmmm, guess it's just an Upstate thing.

Hmmm, guess it's just an Upstate thing.

Hmm... this part of upstate, I hear New York as two distinct words. Unless people just call it "The City*" as in "I'm going down to the city for the Big East tourney" or something like that.



edit: (*these, of course, also being two distinct words....)

Since English doesn't have a seperate plural form of "you", it makes "y'all" seem quite reasonable. Fills a gap.

"You" is second personal singular and plural pronoun in English. "Y'all", the contracted version of "you all" is simply adding a redundant particle, and it sounds stupid to boot. If you really want a separate plural, I demand that you use "thou". :D

Though I can't really talk. The Scottish version of "y'all" is "youse", which I use fairly regularly.

"You" is second personal singular and plural pronoun in English. "Y'all", the contracted version of "you all" is simply adding a redundant particle, and it sounds stupid to boot. If you really want a separate plural, I demand that you use "thou". :D

Though I can't really talk. The Scottish version of "y'all" is "youse", which I use fairly regularly.

Does "thou" necessarily mean more than one person? IIRC from Shakespeare people use it for one person too.
I didn't know Scottish and Irish used youse. I have only heard words like that in Mob movies.

Have you tried it?? It's goooood!I'm a French Fry Aficionado. I've tried them all and have come to the conclusion that the best fry is a thinly sliced, golden brown, slightly salted fry. No katchup, no pepper, no VINEGAR!!!!!!!

Just salt.

My wife's grandmother says "yous" and I think it's funny so sometimes I say it when I'm talking to her, just to get a swat on the arm.

I don't have an accent--no, really, I trained myself out of it when I went to college and abroad--but when I get angry or go on a rant OH NO HERE COMES THE HICK VIRGINIA FARM BOY TALKIN' LIKE HE'S FROM ALABAMMER!!!

Consequently, whenever I'm around a native Virginian and I hear the accent, I get a little nervous and start fidgeting, because I know my brain is going to start shuffling the odd pronunciations back into my speech like a Joker in a deck of cards, and who knows when it will pop out to embarrass me.

I ... I'm so ashamed.

I don't have an accent

you've given up on vocal communication?

Not even a hint of a Southern accent is in my vocal cords. I grew up around Midwesterners and New Englanders (mostly Connecticut), so I have a very precise way of speaking. When I speak slowly, I tend to be a bit nasal (think Judge Reinhold, but not as mellow). When I speak fast enough, I get kind of raspy. Along with this, I also grew up watching Seinfeld and Frasier, which were big influences on me in those days (seriously, how many six-year-old kids watch shows like that?).

I pronounce everything properly --- no change in sounds due to a specific way of speaking. Basically, it's a dictionary-perfect way of speaking, and I've been asked if I was from Canada because of this. And believe me, that's a compliment amongst compliments. I pride myself on being a good speaker, as they're very uncommon in this area, even this state. Would it kill people to not be lazy and pronounce things properly around here? :p

Though I do get some crap for speaking this way. My dad has one of the thickest (and in my mind, one of the most disgusting) Texas accents you'll ever hear. And, even though I've spoken this way my entire life (I even have video camera footage from the early 1990s to prove it), he insists that it's a ham accent...

...Sorry, went off on a rant there.

My mom is from Richmond, Virginia and never caught the God awful accent there. When she moved to New York she fit right. Same with my dad, except he's from Newark, New Jersey, so not much of a change from New York.

I don't have an accent--no, really, I trained myself out of it when I went to college and abroad--but when I get angry or go on a rant OH NO HERE COMES THE HICK VIRGINIA FARM BOY TALKIN' LIKE HE'S FROM ALABAMMER!!!

Yeah? Well, when I get pissed or go off on rants, I get a thick Jersey slur in the vein of Glenn Danzig. Even I don't know how that's possible, and I've been doing that since was three years old!

Does "thou" necessarily mean more than one person? IIRC from Shakespeare people use it for one person too.
I didn't know Scottish and Irish used youse. I have only heard words like that in Mob movies.

No, "thou" is singular. "You" is supposed to be plural already. It's kind of like "tu" and "vos" in Latin, I think. That's why I agree that saying "you all" is redundant.

Does "thou" necessarily mean more than one person?

No, that's backwards. "Thou" was the singular. "You" was the plural.

As for the question, I speak probably half-posh, half-londoner. When on holiday in America I haven't had any trouble understanding people, possibly cause their accents weren't that strong, or because I've watched a lot of American TV programmes (English satellite/cable is full of them).

My mom is from Richmond, Virginia and never caught the God awful accent there. When she moved to New York she fit right. Same with my dad, except he's from Newark, New Jersey, so not much of a change from New York.

I think I'd fit in, myself. I cleaned a house for a family from Brooklyn a few times last year, and I really didn't sound any different than they did... Well, save for the wife. Hers was pretty noticeable, though it wasn't exactly that thick.

And I guess your mom is pretty intelligent. It takes a lot of self-awareness to speak properly when you're constantly around lazy speakers.

No, "thou" is singular. "You" is supposed to be plural already. It's kind of like "tu" and "vos" in Latin, I That's why I agree that saying "you all" is redundant.

So I guess when we say you to one person we are implying that we respect that person. Like in France you have to address your superior or a stranger as vous. So if you want to disrespect someone call them thou.

So I guess when we say you to one person we are implying that we respect that person. Like in France you have to address your superior or a stranger as vous. So if you want to disrespect someone call them thou.

Well, if it's like french then it's only a disrespect if it's someone you don't know well, or someone noticeably older, surely?

I think I'd fit in, myself. I cleaned a house for a family from Brooklyn a few times last year, and I really didn't sound any different than they did... Well, save for the wife. Hers was pretty noticeable, though it wasn't exactly that thick.

And I guess your mom is pretty intelligent. It takes a lot of self-awareness to speak properly when you're constantly around lazy speakers.Brooklyn speakers... *shudders*

Yeah, she is, but then again her dad is such an anal person he'd have killed her if she didn't speak properly. When she was young she brought home a school project she got an A on, and he called it "complete garbage," threw it away, and called the teacher to tell her to change it to an F. My mom was like 7 at the time!

speak properly

no such thing

So I guess when we say you to one person we are implying that we respect that person. Like in France you have to address your superior or a stranger as vous. So if you want to disrespect someone call them thou.

Not neccessarily. It isn't like that in Latin, as far as I know. "Tu" is just the singular and "vos" is just the plural. I think it was more like that in English when thou was used than it was like what you described, but that's just a guess.

no such thing

As far as dictionaries are concerned, yes, there is.

"Car" is not pronounced "CoWARR", nor is "There" pronounced "They'Urr".

Brooklyn speakers... *shudders*

Yeah, she is, but then again her dad is such an anal person he'd have killed her if she didn't speak properly. When she was young she brought home a school project she got an A on, and he called it "complete garbage," threw it away, and called the teacher to tell her to change it to an F. My mom was like 7 at the time!

Fun stuff!

Hmm... this part of upstate, I hear New York as two distinct words. Unless people just call it "The City*" as in "I'm going down to the city for the Big East tourney" or something like that.



edit: (*these, of course, also being two distinct words....)

I'm talking about the state, not NYC. But I'm with on the reference to NYC as just, "The city."

BTW, where from Upstate are you? I'm from the Hudson Valley, just a stone's throw away from Newburgh, New Windsor, and West Point.

As far as dictionaries are concerned, yes, there is.

not really. it's that whole prescriptive/descriptive thing

Hick doesn't even discribe the majority of these accents (New Jersey, Texan...) so yeah it was a bad word choice on me.

:D

But what word to use in its place?

How about American?

( by the way I don't even know what some of the words you wrote mean. Abo???? )

Aussie slur for Aboriginal. It's basically about the equivilant of "niggra" - bad but not quite as bad as "******".

I'm from Northern California...so I don't see myself as having much of any accent besides generic American... Although many people have told me that I do have an accent that they cannot place, or at least an odd manner of speech.

In speaking, depending on who I am talking to and what the situation is I go from slurring and mumbling everything I say to precise, almost clipped speech.

We do have an accent, actually. It's just we don't notice it because it's what we're used to and it's not one that is imitated often. It's kind of the opposite of a drawl. Instead of drawing out our vowels, we squish them as short as possible and run our words together. At least, that's kinda the standard nor-cal/bay area accent. It took me travelling to other parts of the country to figure it out.

In a lot of cases it seems that around here, people use many of the vowels in words only as bridges between consonants. For instance, San Francisco has really become "S(a)nFr'ncisco" or how California is pronounced more like "Cal'fornya" with the "i" sound replaced by a sort of generic vowel sound and clipped as short as possible.

whereabouts in the UP are you from?

Originally from the Keweenaw Peninsula area(middle of nowhere, but closest town was Hancock), moved to Escanaba about 7 years ago.

Only people born in English speaking countries are fair game for ridicule. These are my rules.

Fine, suit yourself. No Swedish accent for you.

Originally from the Keweenaw Peninsula area(middle of nowhere, but closest town was Hancock), moved to Escanaba about 7 years ago.

my aunt and uncle used to live in that general vicinity, actually

Which one do you have?
Which one do you hate?

Can include videos or soud clips of you, or people who have accents similar to you, or people who have accents you hate.

Only people born in English speaking countries are fair game for ridicule. These are my rules.

I hate Southern US redneck accents.They just grate, literally, and on my nerves. My science teacher can do a really annoying/funny one if she exaggerates a little (She's from North Carolina). They're annoying and funny at the same time.

People that aren't from the area I live in say we have deep voices and accents, not "hick" though..

New York accents pwn. There are hicks in NY, they're upstate. The most annoying accents, though they aren't hicks, are the Boston accents. Pfft!

my aunt and uncle used to live in that general vicinity, actually

Oh really? Whereabouts? Generally speaking of course. If you're living on the Keweenaw Peninsula, odds are that you're living out in the middle of nowhere.

I miss home. :(

Vinegar in your french fries?!!! :eek:

Blasphemy!

It's not that bad. Now, granted, I'd never dip them in it, but still.

Right after you pull the fries out of the frier, add some salt and vinegar. Then, mix up a small cup of ketchup and mayonaisse for dipping, and you get a foodgasm.

Fine, suit yourself. No Swedish accent for you.

I dunno why, but I like the Scandinavian family of accents. I want one, personally. :D

New York accents pwn. There are hicks in NY, they're upstate.

Hey, I'm from Upstate, and guess what? *waves one-fingered victory salute* Just because we don't vote exclusively Democrat doesn't make us hicks.

Hey, I'm from Upstate, and guess what? *waves one-fingered victory salute* Just because we don't vote exclusively Democrat doesn't make us hicks.Yes, yes it does.

JK.

or am I?

Hey, I'm from Upstate, and guess what? *waves one-fingered victory salute* Just because we don't vote exclusively Democrat doesn't make us hicks.

Waving the "one-fingered victory salute", on the other hand, does.

Waving the "one-fingered victory salute", on the other hand, does.

*is in agreement with Fass*

I'm a native Californian, but I've been told that my accent is not easily identifiable. I've been told that I sound like I'm from Canada because I pronounce the ou sound like aoo (house like haoose). My ex-husband sounds like a typical Oka-Texan even though he was born in California (his mom's from Texas and his dad was from Oklahoma) - but, since he has two Master's degrees - in English and History - he really isn't a hick, even if he has a hick accent.

I'm a native Californian, but I've been told that my accent is not easily identifiable. I've been told that I sound like I'm from Canada because I pronounce the ou sound like aoo (house like haoose). My ex-husband sounds like a typical Oka-Texan even though he was born in California (his mom's from Texas and his dad was from Oklahoma) - but, since he has two Master's degrees - in English and History - he really isn't a hick, even if he has a hick accent.

Actually, back in the thirties there was a huge migration from Oklahoma to California. I think some Texans as well, and that has probably affected accents quite a bit in parts of CA.

Yes, yes it does.

JK.

or am I?

I'm inclined to to believe that you're not.

Waving the "one-fingered victory salute", on the other hand, does.

Okay, quoting bush was a bad move, but I thought that clip was hilarious. My statement still stands, though.

My favorite accent is the Kentucky accent. Can't explain why. My least favorite has to be the Georgian accent, althouhg this is probably because of "Deliverance".

I personally have a bizarre mixture of a Chicago and Canadian accent. Some say I sound Irish at times.

Accents are hawt.

As much as people seem to despise it, I find "y'all" to be immensely useful.

The only thing that really pisses me off is when southerners say "eeeeeem" instead oh "him." God, have you ever tried to watch an episode of Reba from start to finish? she does it all the time.

My favorite accent is the Kentucky accent. Can't explain why. My least favorite has to be the Georgian accent, althouhg this is probably because of "Deliverance".

I personally have a bizarre mixture of a Chicago and Canadian accent. Some say I sound Irish at times.

Kentuckians have to be among the most annoying accents out there. I know, my school bus driver had one. Extending their vowels was just so... irritating. "Sit dooooown on the buuuus".

*imagines strangling driver*

I hate Southern US redneck accents.

And I pity people like you who have a need to turn to ethnic slurs to tear down others in order to make themselves feel better.

Waving the "one-fingered victory salute", on the other hand, does.

Nah, doesn't make one a "hick" - just makes one a rude little munchkin who is apparently incapable of higher forms of communication, like you or I.

The only thing that really pisses me off is when southerners say "eeeeeem" instead oh "him." God, have you ever tried to watch an episode of Reba from start to finish? she does it all the time.I say 'em all the time, and I'm not southern.

I've got an Australian accent.

I've got an Australian accent.

My condolences to you.

My condolences to you.

Hey, I bet the ladies love it. Those that don't will probably end up making some joke involving dingos but you can't have everything. :p

And I pity people like you who have a need to turn to ethnic slurs to tear down others in order to make themselves feel better.

I don't think all Southerners are rednecks. Just the ones who are ignorant.