<p>Community Auditions!! I can’t believe it’s back. </p>
<p>Do they let old people sing? </p>
<p>I could go back on, you could all vote for me, and I could WIN this time!</p>
<p>Sneakers are definitely not shoes.</p>
<p>I would vote for you. I still think sneakers are shoes; we don’t really differentiate. I am just getting used to referring to flip-flops instead of “thongs” as the thong of today is quite a different thing!</p>
<p>I wish I could go into a store and still buy “sneakers”! Now they’re athletic shoes, tennis shoes, running shoes, walking shoes, cross-trainers, etc. Asking for sneakers in a shoe store gets you blank stares.</p>
<p>Just seeing this thread for the first time and don’t really have the patience to read through 123 posts but I get a real kick out of Bostonian accents. In fact, it was one of the perks of my son’s attendance of a U in the Boston area. Just today, I ran into someone who moved out of Boston decades ago but still has the most delightful accent. So which side did the other 122 of you weigh in on?</p>
<p>worrywart,</p>
<p>You must read it all. It’s hilarious.</p>
<p>I understand everything on Boston Legal. They don’t sound like the Bostonians talked about on this thread.</p>
<p>Schmaltz , I agree with you regarding the fake Boston accents in movies…but that woman in " Gone Baby Gone " did an awesome job, I think…also I remember the days when we first got " cablevision " on the Cape and discovered the joys of channels 38 and 56
And Eddie Andleman !</p>
<p>I have lived in southern NJ and raised my kids here…they have a hybrid mix of the Boston accent, or maybe pronunciation of certain words…and they insist to their peers that their way is the correct way.</p>
<p>Aunt vs Ant
Vanilla vs Vanella
Radiator vs Raddiator
Scallop pronounced scawlop
etc, etc</p>
<p>“Scallop pronounced scawlop”</p>
<p>which is, of course, the correct way to pronounce it! :)</p>
<p>I’m making scawlops for dinner; now I’ll now how to properly pronounce them.</p>
<p>You know how to pronounce them, and I hope you know to eat them with a fawk.</p>
<p>It drives me up the wall when Sandra Lee uses " MALK " in her recipes instead of milk</p>
<p>Take this quiz:
[What</a> American accent do you have?](<a href=“http://www.gotoquiz.com/what_american_accent_do_you_have]What”>What American accent do you have?)</p>
<p>flip flops</p>
<p>thongs</p>
<p>zoris</p>
<p>go aheads</p>
<p>slaps</p>
<p>others?</p>
<p>This is zapfino’s quiz, updated:
[What</a> American accent do you really have?](<a href=“http://www.gotoquiz.com/what_american_accent_do_you_really_have]What”>What American accent do you really have?)</p>
<p>Both quizzes gave the right answers for me. I’m surprised, though, that the quiz maker doesn’t look for the rhotic/non-rhotic distinction.</p>
<p>same for me Cardinal Fang…Northeast NE, Boston</p>
<p>Well, I grew up in NJ, with parents from SC, and have lived in Mass for 20+ years as an adult. I took zapfino’s quiz - my accent is from nowhere. Which is about right.</p>
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<p>I just checked back here. Wow, what a great thread.<br>
and I’ll stick to my own shoes vs. sneakers reasoning, if only for the fact that:
I love wearing my sneakers.
I hate wearing shoes… especially ones with heels.
:)</p>
<p>And as for accents, my favorite New England pronunciation is for Aunt. I remember my cousin’s husband calling family members to tell them their son had been born. “Would you let so-and-so know she’s now an Ont? (“what??”) An ONT!”</p>
<p>^^^^ that is funny because where I grew up the word is pronounced more like ahhhnt ;)</p>
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<p>…? How could that even be?</p>
<p>My result: “You have a Midland accent” is just another way of saying “you don’t have an accent.” - That’s close, I suppose.</p>
<p>I took the accent test and I am full blooded Northeast/Boston accent. Vague rhymes with bag and around here the sister of your mom or dad is your Ahhnt, not your Ant or your Ont.</p>