Another accent/dialect thread (with test)

[MeanDean]

My cousin says "pellow" instead of "pillow". I don't know that I've heard anyone else say it that way. He has lived within 30 minutes of his hometown in Iowa his entire life.

My roommate pronounces it that way too. Vermont born. Lived in Mass and Maryland. He has a few others. Calls the grocery cart a "buggy." A few more I can't recall right now.

 

[ISUEmbassy]

When we lived in TX everyone called Crayons "crowns". Drove me insane when both my kids started saying it - I would make them practice saying cray-ons til they switched back.

 

[bsaltyman]

Omaha, Des Moines, and Lincoln. That’s pretty good considering I’ve lived most of my life in Iowa.

 

[HFCS]

It's pretty impressive how accurate it is.

I got Des Moines and Milwaukee.

22 years Iowa (Ames and Sioux City)
15 years Chicago
6 years LA

 

[HFCS]

When we lived in TX everyone called Crayons "crowns". Drove me insane when both my kids started saying it - I would make them practice saying cray-ons til they switched back.

Calling a Pepsi 'coke' I can handle. Calling a 7up 'coke' is just insanity.

After college I waited tables at a restaurant with mostly travelling business clientele. I quickly became a 'soda' person out if efficiency after going up 'pop'.

 

[HFCS]

I think in western Iowa where I grew up most people say "melk" vs "milk".

Anybody else feel this?

 

[Cycho1]

I got Des Moines, Minneapolis, and Rockford. Pretty accurate considering I grew up in NW Iowa, spent 5 years in Ames, and the past 17 in the NW suburbs of Chicago.

 

[Cyched]

Des Moines, Omaha and Rockford

 

[zumbro clones]

My older relatives and in-laws from Iowa say the days of the week like "Fri-dee" instead of Friday.

Anyone else hear this?

 

[cowgirl836]

Madison, Rockford, Milwaukee and I currentlylive in one of them. Unless Dubuque was an option, I doubt they could get much closer. I had no idea what a frontage road was until I moved to a city so I wonder how it might have changed had I modified for things I knew pre college only.

 

[cowgirl836]

Pretty common. Goes along with saying “melk” instead of “milk”.

Oh I do melk not milk

 

[StClone]

Basically Minneapolis and Northern Iowa into SW WI-Pretty much on the money as I grew up in NE Iowa, moved to Minneapolis area now live in Wisconsin. Awsome!

 

[CycloneSarah]

I got Rockford, Aurora, and Toledo. Grew up in the QC. Most differentiated one was pronouncing cot and caught differently which had most similar hotspots in Chicago and St. Louis. My mom's parents grew up in St. Louis and my dad's in Chicago. Very interesting.

 

[chiroclone88]

Oh I do melk not milk

But what about Malk?

 

[Cy4Lifer]

Oops! I say pellow, melk, and Febuary!

 

[CYme]

Denver, Aurora, Phoenix

Lived in Western and Central Iowa my whole life, but I've traveled quite a bit, maybe that played in to some of the regional things like "roundabout " and "frontage road"?

 

[Farnsworth]

I do the same. Same with "Wed-nes-day," even if it's quicker, more like "Wednsday."

I feel, say, and still hear in my head "wens-day". So even quicker.

 

[Farnsworth]

Who pronounces the first r in February? How does that even sound. It's my birth month and I'm skipping that nonsense.

edit: now I'm realizing I have trouble speakin 2 consonants in a row when they are an odd pair that lies on each side of a syllable.

 

[ImJustKCClone]

Portland (OR), Madison (WI) and Houston.

These things struggle to peg me accurately...or maybe they DO peg me? I've lived in California (x2), Texas, Washington (x2), Florida, Kansas, and here. My accent is mostly non-descript midwestern unless I'm "tarred" (then it's ALL Texan) - but my idioms come from all over the country.

 

[ImJustKCClone]

@Angie my mother also said warsh. And after she warshed the dishes, she would wrench them. When we went skiing, she made sure we always wore our ski parkers.