Regional Accent Meme

[dreamflower]

I swiped this meme from pandemonium_213 last week. It took this long for my voice post to show up!

Upload/record the answers to the following questions. Some people used "vocaroo". I used LJ voice-post

1. Your name and/or username:

2. Where you're from: (As specific or as generalized as you wish, depending on your level of comfort)

3. The following words: aunt, roof, route, wash, oil, theater, iron, salmon, caramel, fire, water, sure, data, ruin, crayon, toilet, New Orleans, pecan, both, again, probably, spitting image, Alabama, lawyer, coupon, mayonnaise, syrup, pajamas, caught, orange, coffee, direction, naturally, aluminum and herbs.

4. What is it called when you throw toilet paper on a house?

5. What is the bubbly carbonated drink called?

6. What do you call gym shoes?

7. What do you say to address a group of people?

8. What do you call the kind of spider that has an oval-shaped body and extremely long legs?

9. What do you call your grandparents?

10. What do you call the wheeled contraption in which you carry groceries at the supermarket?

11. What do you call it when rain falls while the sun is shining?

12. What is the thing you change the TV channel with?

Here are my answers:

Comments

[claudia603.livejournal.com]

wow, you really do have a Southern accent! :) How fun!

[dreamflower]

Well where I grew up, you couldn't get any more south without falling into the Gulf of Mexico, LOL!

I'm glad this post finally showed up!

[addie71.livejournal.com]

Love your accent. It reminds me of my grandparents and extended family. :D

[dreamflower]

Where were they from? I grew up and lived most of my life in Alabama, north Florida, and south Mississippi along the Gulf Coast.

[addie71.livejournal.com]

Tennessee and North Carolina. Accent's a little different, but very close. I was born in Tennessee, but raised in Michigan.

[mumstheword54.livejournal.com]

This just made me smile. :-)

Hearing your lovely voice, then hearing all the "Southernisms."

Texas/Oklahoma is a bit different from Deep South in some terms and pronunciations, but purty simular. (Purt' near, but not quite hardly.)

As for the rain thingy, we call it a "shower," but some call it a "shahr." Annnd our family usually goes ahead and says, "A sunshiny shower won't last out the hour."

*big, back-patting hugs*

[dreamflower]

Yeah, now that you mention it, I do kind of remember the word "sunshower".

((hugs back))

I think Texas sounds more southern than Oklahoma. To me OK sounds more "western" than "southern".

[shirebound]

Oh, that was fun to listen to! Maybe I'll do this as well; I pronounce a lot of the things very differently than you do.

[dreamflower]

It was very fun to do, though I don't know why LJ took 5 days for the post to show up!

I'd love to hear how you sound doing it!

[shirebound]

I'm still trying to do this meme! My voicepost isn't posting for some reason. Hopefully it'll show up eventually.

[dreamflower]

I had given up on mine showing--and then suddenly there it was! I hope it won't mess things up for this round of read_lotr_aloud

[gentlehobbit.livejournal.com]

My comment seems to have disappeared... I'll try again.

I love your accent. It has that soft, southern drawl to it that makes me think of the heat of a summer's day and people kicking back and relaxing on the porch with a cool drink. Maybe a mint julep.

[dreamflower]

You know, your comment must have been there, because it showed up in my email!

Ah well, the ways of the internet can be mysterious!

I don't know about a mint julep, but I do love a sprig of mint in my sweet ice tea.

[pearltook1]

You're adorable! I love your accent.

This was great fun to listen to. :-)

Hugs!

[dreamflower]

Aww...thanks.

[pandemonium-213.livejournal.com]

I LOVE YOUR ACCENT!

And the regionalisms, too, like "buggy." "Coca-coler" is neat, too, and interesting that, like Boston, an r is added.

It's also interesting to observe that when you read snippets from Tolkien, your lovely Deep South accent becomes toned down and you sound more "NPR"-like. :^)

[dreamflower]

I'm glad you like it. I hear it more when it's recorded.

I think that's the reading aloud thing. I just do sound different when I read aloud--I would never make the mistake of trying to fake a British accent, but I suppose I subconsciously try to at least sound more neutral.

[rhapsody11.livejournal.com]

A zapper! That's a good one. And 'that thing with one square wheel" had me laughing :)

[dreamflower]

*grin* I'm glad I made you happy!

[aranellaurelote.livejournal.com]

Haha, I'm totally going to do this! Inject a bit of my accent into lj :-) I do love your accent though! I find it quite relaxing to listen to (if that doesn't sound weird...) ;D

[aranellaurelote.livejournal.com]

There we go: http://aranellaurelote.livejournal.com/79895.html

[cairistiona7.livejournal.com]

Finally getting around to listening to this! Y'all talk like a lotta folks 'round here. There's a bit of a difference in how people here refer to a group: here they'll actually say "y'all" for individuals, as in "Hey, how y'all doin'?" instead of "How are you?" When they're talking to a whole group, it's "All y'all". Me, I sometimes say it that way, having picked it up from living in the Ozarks for the last 25+ years, but I still cling to my St. Louis roots and say, for a group, "You's" or "you guys", or if I'm feeling particularly south St. Louis Italian (usually after a plateful of toasted ravioli), I'll say "you's guys".