regional US accents

[Imran Siddiqui]

Southern US accents are quite fun and vary greatly (even among states). For anyone simply thinking they are all one drawl, they haven't been down here.

[C0ckney]

in brasil, i can tell the difference between someone from rio, são paulo, minas gerais, the south (i know there are differences between the various places, but i can't tell them apart) and the north east (they kind of sing the words - again i know there is a lot of variation but i would struggle to tell the difference between someone from belém and fortaleza), the north, i kind of lump in with the north east as well. i haven't met enough people from the centre (mato gross, mato gross de sul, goiais etc.) to get an idea of how they sound, although it can't be a million miles away from farmers from minas or the interior of são paulo.

for england and wales, there is just so much variation, that it's hard to talk about in a somewhat short way.

[SlowwHand]

As far as Texas vs. Oklahoma, I've never heard anyone in Texas call water "werter".

[MrFun]

Southern US accents are quite fun and vary greatly (even among states). For anyone simply thinking they are all one drawl, they haven't been down here.

I have the impression that rural southern accent is different from urban southern accent.

[Dauphin]

Yeah, we think you all have an accent. You think we all have accents. So we all have accents

I think you have several accents at once. You are the quintessential accentual mongrel.

[-Jrabbit]

There are definite regional accents in France and Germany -- and I assume the same is true in many countries.

I did business with a company in southern Germany (near the Black Forest), and they were forever complaining that their Schwabian accent was thought of as low class and showed limited intelligence (as many in the US perceive the Appalachian/"hillbilly" accent). Just about everyone in that area has good English skills, both from school and because the town is near a US army base. Interestingly, their pronunciation of certain phonemes (like sounding a "d" for a "th" -- "dese and dose") ran true in their English speaking. As a result, their English had a definite South Side Chicago sound.

[Dinner]

Southern US accents are quite fun and vary greatly (even among states). For anyone simply thinking they are all one drawl, they haven't been down here.

Quite fun? What do you do? Play a game where you get to jerk off in her face every time she says "y'all"? If semen in the eye doesn't get her to stop saying it nothing will.

[Tupac Shakur]

Quite fun? What do you do? Play a game where you get to jerk off in her face every time she says "y'all"? If semon in the eye doesn't get her to stop saying it nothing will.

The proper spellings are "ya'll" and "semen".

[Dinner]

Just more proof you're gay.

[-Jrabbit]

I generally see it spelled "y'all"...

[Dinner]

Me too. It's not surprising Drake is wrong.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Oh, not this discussion again

[SlowwHand]

The proper spellings are "ya'll" .

Wrong again, dumb ass.

[Tupac Shakur]

Real Texans spell it "ya'll", you ****ing poser.

[SlowwHand]

Tell me about "real" Texans. You're so ****ing stupid.