'Just Rewards (2)'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
I still don't understand how "caught" and "cot" could sound different. I sat here saying them over and over, trying to exaggerate the vowels, and they still sound the same.
Strangely, I was just sittinghere wondering how "caught" and "cot" could possibly sound the same.
Also, I scored as "Dixie", even though I have never even been further south than Philedelphia and my family is either from a) New England b) French Canada or c) Italy
76% (Dixie). That is a pretty strong Southern score!
I'm kinda surprised that my "y'all," "roly-poly," and "rolling" usages apparently dominate over my "soda," "mischief night," and ability to distinguish between "caught" and "cot."
Caught is the vowel in "Aw," as in, "Aw, ain't that cute?"
Cot is the vowel in "Ah," as in, "Ah, I get it."
And before I forget what I came here for, congratulations, Rio!
I still don't understand how "caught" and "cot" could sound different. I sat here saying them over and over, trying to exaggerate the vowels, and they still sound the same.
The only way I could rationalize this myself was to think of the Industrial Cape Breton accent where "caught" would sound like "cat" and cot would sound like "cawt."
I pronounce caught and cot the same way as Susan W.
The caught/cot thing was one of the harder parts of my dialect class. Distinguishing the difference is super tricky, but it's there.
I was not surprised by my Dixie score, which was something like 53%, since most of my family is from the south, I was born in Florida, which gets many of the southern vocal patterns, and yet, I've spent lots of time away from the south, in large cities, and other areas where it is easy to go accent-less. So there's a Dixie influence on my vowels and word choices, but most of my enunciation is pretty standard American. So that quiz was very accurate, for me.
43% Yankee. But if I go with how my family says things, I come up with 60% Dixie.
Until I took Voice and Diction in college I didn't differentiate between pin and pen, or tin and ten. I probably learned some other stuff too.
52% Dixie, which is, like, crazy.
Nope. It's a monday. I hope you can make it.
I'm on deadline Monday & Tuesday; are those the only days you're in town?
Rio, Lee arrives Sunday evening and leaves sometime Tuesday. We might be able to meet you somewhere Sunday night if neither of you are too tired.
Yeah, Sunday's the only time I could do it. Should we take this discush to the F2F thread?
Sure