Guest Sloth Posted March 25, 2008 Report Share Posted March 25, 2008 That's some funny sheet. I forgot about the jimmies. I remember the first time my wife asked for those, I was like wtf did you say? She also always calls her mom mum when emailing her. No wonder we're getting divorced. In the south, kids call their grandparents me ma and pa pa. Some of the grandparents don't even go by me ma or pa pa. They actually create their own name. My father in-law goes by poppy. All I can think about is opium whenever I hear it. My mother in-law's grandparent name is so stupid I'm not even going to mention it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wild Jay Posted March 25, 2008 Report Share Posted March 25, 2008 This is a great chart from this student I came across on line a few years back who actually did a research study for college on the geographic uses of the words Soda, Pop, and Coke, pretty interesting stuffSoda_Vs_Pop_Map.bmp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Claude Balls Posted March 25, 2008 Report Share Posted March 25, 2008 This is a great chart from this student I came across on line a few years back who actually did a research study for college on the geographic uses of the words Soda, Pop, and Coke, pretty interesting stuffSoda_Vs_Pop_Map.bmp That is pretty cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Oxhurtz Posted March 25, 2008 Report Share Posted March 25, 2008 This is a great chart from this student I came across on line a few years back who actually did a research study for college on the geographic uses of the words Soda, Pop, and Coke, pretty interesting stuffSoda_Vs_Pop_Map.bmp Very Interesting!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabretooth73 Posted March 25, 2008 Report Share Posted March 25, 2008 yeah, in $hittsburgh they do say "sweep" as opposed to vacuum..... i am like wtf you talking about yer gonna sweep the living room...its a carpet...are you gonna use a broom over it??? WTF! also, the guy nailed it earlier...they moit the words "needs to be" all the time.... "the car needs washed"...... "the room needs cleaned"...etc...... so F-ing annoying! and oh yeah, the DON/DAWN thing is a joke too... they say both exactly the same, "DAWN"..... and one other thing ive noticed is the dont say COLOR...as in red, yellow, blue, etc...they say "Keller" as in Helen Keller..... who the F thinks this crap is OK???? it is insanity! Thank god my wife lost just about all of her $hittsburgh accent before I met her in college bc there would be no way I could stand that! Her friends made fun of it so much that she tried real hard and realized how stupid it sounded and lost it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evil_otto Posted March 25, 2008 Report Share Posted March 25, 2008 For the former WNY'ers - Take the accent quiz. Has anybody's changed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inkman Posted March 25, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 25, 2008 For the former WNY'ers - Take the accent quiz. Has anybody's changed? I'm northern as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wonderbread Posted March 25, 2008 Report Share Posted March 25, 2008 I'm Western...Western Pa Mofo's! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Campy Posted March 25, 2008 Report Share Posted March 25, 2008 Cool quiz. "Northern You have a Northern accent. That could either be the Chicago/Detroit/Cleveland/Buffalo accent (easily recognizable) or the Western New England accent that news networks go for." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
X. Benedict Posted March 25, 2008 Report Share Posted March 25, 2008 Cool quiz. "Northern You have a Northern accent. That could either be the Chicago/Detroit/Cleveland/Buffalo accent (easily recognizable) or the Western New England accent that news networks go for." same here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SCSabresFan! Posted March 25, 2008 Report Share Posted March 25, 2008 Don't get out west much do ya? That's where I've heard it used some. It definitely doesn't get used east of here. Notice how you can't go to Florida and not meet someone who moved there from NY. When I was in Florida at the Tampa/Sabres game back in February, the guy behind us moved there from Buffalo. Then in Sarasota I met a dude from Macedon and one from Oswego. Half of this freakin country's population is made up of ex-New Yorkers. Half of Charlotteans are from Western New York. I get comments about the Bills/Sabres stuff almost daily. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darksabre Posted March 25, 2008 Report Share Posted March 25, 2008 That 's because it is soda to the rest of the world, sans Boston with their #%^$#!ing "Tonic". I hate the word pop when referring to soda, no offense. It just sounds like a 4 year old's version of the word. http://www.andrews.edu/~campbels/Gif/moxie.gif Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Claude Balls Posted March 26, 2008 Report Share Posted March 26, 2008 For the former WNY'ers - Take the accent quiz. Has anybody's changed? Moscow??? How the hell do I sound like I'm from Moscow? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bmwolf21 Posted March 26, 2008 Report Share Posted March 26, 2008 Moscow??? How the hell do I sound like I'm from Moscow? When you answer the phone, do they think they're doing an interview with Max? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Claude Balls Posted March 26, 2008 Report Share Posted March 26, 2008 When you answer the phone, do they think they're doing an interview with Max? Yeah, they ask if I can remove the 3 pieces of bread from my mouth before I speak. He can't even pronounce his own name in English. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bmwolf21 Posted March 26, 2008 Report Share Posted March 26, 2008 Yeah, they ask if I can remove the 3 pieces of bread from my mouth before I speak. He can't even pronounce his own name in English. :lol: How long has he been in America? 8,9 years? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BRH Posted March 26, 2008 Report Share Posted March 26, 2008 :lol: How long has he been in America? 8,9 years? Hasek has been here going on 20 years and doesn't speak the language any better than when he first got here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wonderbread Posted March 27, 2008 Report Share Posted March 27, 2008 Thry this one its pretty good. speech exam Apperantly i am only 43% "yankee" but have been living in PA my whole life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bmwolf21 Posted March 27, 2008 Report Share Posted March 27, 2008 40% (Yankee). A definitive Yankee. Good to see that in my time in Florida I didn't pick up many bad speaking habits... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knightrider Posted March 27, 2008 Report Share Posted March 27, 2008 Good to see my time in Boston hasn't tainted my Northern accent too much... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inkman Posted March 27, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 27, 2008 40% (Yankee). A definitive Yankee. 40% as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Oxhurtz Posted March 27, 2008 Report Share Posted March 27, 2008 For the former WNY'ers - Take the accent quiz. Has anybody's changed? Northern as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Oxhurtz Posted March 27, 2008 Report Share Posted March 27, 2008 Thry this one its pretty good. speech exam Apperantly i am only 43% "yankee" but have been living in PA my whole life. I'm only 48%. The only word I ever used from my time in the south is Y'all, but that's it. Damn!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fighting Chicken Posted March 27, 2008 Report Share Posted March 27, 2008 You should come over to the UK and hear the Bimingham, Liverpool and Hull accents. Then again, you'd seriously struggle to understand them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Oxhurtz Posted March 27, 2008 Report Share Posted March 27, 2008 Hasek has been here going on 20 years and doesn't speak the language any better than when he first got here! In the offseason of the 01' season, after Hasek said he wanted to play for a good quality team, Shredd & Ragan (from 103.3 The Edge) ripped on Hasek really good. (Everyone thought at the time, that Hasek wanted to go to St. Louis). They had a contest set up like "Who wants to be a millionaire", and for the final question they had Domink Hasek as a lifeline buddy. They called up Hasek (impersonator of course), and the first words out of Hasek was "I love Stuh Louis". It was hysterical, the impersonator was stuttering perfectly like Hasek, and was saying everything about Stuh Louis "King of Beers", and asked what the score of the cardinals game was. I wish I had a copy of that, I was laughing my a-- off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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