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09-24-2012, 11:07 PM
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#16 | | New Member
Join Date: Jul 2012 Location: North Carolina...rural
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Wait, "ya'll" is just common language lol. I didn't even think to put it on here !
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09-25-2012, 12:43 AM
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#17 | | Member
Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Virginia--->???? '19
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@Kaeroze....yes, it is redneck, TRUST me....you haven`t heard them speak in VA....there`s hug difference...I just wrote out the specific words...you have no idea how it sounds....Texas accents somehow sound different from Virginian accents. And when people dress like rednecks, then the accent sounds 10x worse.
@AlexHarper....like I said, when they say it in VA, it`s different than when someone from NY says is... but since you`re from NC, you understand.
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09-25-2012, 03:57 PM
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#18 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: The Big Tapuach
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I'm from Noo Yawk, Noo Yawk. Enough said.
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09-25-2012, 05:21 PM
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#19 | | Member
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Nope, from SC. Ya'll is common usage and not reserved for rednecks.
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09-25-2012, 06:11 PM
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#20 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Tejas
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@CE527M is it the Deep, slow, annoying country voice that is somehow understandable yet not? That's like country COUNTRY! and Texas accents can be I guess differed among the other various southern accents because we have a twang...yay*sarcasm*
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09-25-2012, 06:24 PM
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#21 | | Member
Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Virginia--->???? '19
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No, I know it`s common language, it`s said practically everywhere, even in the Northeast, I suppose...but in rural VA....well....it`s different. Too hard to explain over the internet...but, it just sounds different then when someone from TX, SC, FL, WA, or wherever says it.
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09-26-2012, 11:22 AM
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#22 | | Senior Member
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the english language, unlike a lot of other languages, doesn't really have "official" or "right" pronunciations. it's not like spelling. there really isn't a wrong way. I've lived in a lot of places, and I always find it funny when people correct pronunciation sometimes. it's just like, go over to the next country, the other pronunciation is "right" there.
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09-26-2012, 12:06 PM
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#23 | | Member
Join Date: Jun 2012 Location: Ohio
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This one is cliche, but "nucular" for "nuclear." I've had several teachers that said it this way.
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09-26-2012, 02:03 PM
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#24 | | Junior Member
Join Date: May 2010 Location: New York
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My teachers add "er" to a lot of words like "area' is "arier" and "beluga whale" is "beluger whale".
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09-26-2012, 03:59 PM
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#25 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2012 Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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Not actually in English, but it always bothers me. There is the Hebrew word Yom (it might be familiar to you due to the holiday Yom Kippur) which means day and is pronounced yOm, but people often pronounce it yum which has a totally different meaning in Hebrew (it is sea).
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09-26-2012, 05:42 PM
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#26 | | Junior Member
Join Date: May 2010 Location: Quiggleville PA
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more of a regional accent than a mispronunciation, but some people get annoyed by how people pronounce bag (not like bad, like bayg).
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09-26-2012, 07:25 PM
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#27 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2011
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A total different kind of mispronunciation, but my school is doing Romeo and Juliet right now. Our Romeo just moved here from Mexico last year. Cue the hilarious mispronunciations now!
-------------------------------------------If it is to be, it is up to me.....
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09-27-2012, 09:47 PM
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#28 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Jul 2012 Location: based Tia
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Tarjayyh for Target.
I hate that.
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09-27-2012, 09:49 PM
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#29 | | Member
Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Virginia--->???? '19
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^ Jeez that drives me nuts.
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09-27-2012, 10:17 PM
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#30 | | Member
Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: California ---> ?? '17
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I have a slight Texas accent (it's been going away a bit ever since I moved to California).
But there are still some words that are hard for me to pronounce.
For example, "women" is pronounced "wihmen" out here, but I pronounce it the way it is spelled ("woah-men").
I have to visualize it spelled like "wihmen" in my head or else I can't pronounce it.
I also say "prolly" instead of "probably".
Also, everyone out here pronounces "aunt" like "ont", but I always heard it pronounced like "ant".
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