My step-mother went to elementary school in Ithaca NY, then junior high in Atlanta GA. When she started high school in Sacramento CA she was told she had a "speech defect" and sent to remedial English. Made her so mad she is now a Ph.D. in linguistics.
I'm a So. California native. My dad's family is all from NJ. When I was 7, I had to see a speech therapist because I had a NJ accent in California. To this day if they have to guess, people still think I'm from the east coast.
On the Merry/Mary/Marry note...I say them Mehrry/Mairy/Maiyry
I've got an accent that's a bizarro blend of London-East Coast-West Coast and, when I'm really tired, Canada.
People have no idea where I'm from.
People have no idea where I'm from.
People say the same about me. The accent itself if very bland, midwestern-y generally. BUT, it has hints of the south and England in it as well in words and phrasing.
People ask me about my accent all the time. I've heard guesses ranging from Irish to tony East Coast boarding school, both wrong. I think it's because my mother spoke English as a second language, and I picked up an emphatic pronunciation from her textbook English. What's interesting is that my little sister hasn't a trace of the accent thing. I figure she must have learned a lot from me. A generic American intonation, how to swim and ride a bike, and why the Ramones were the coolest ever.
Pronunciation:
A woman I worked with many many moons ago called a resident of the nursing home we worked at Ms. Camp-bell. When I corrected her with "cam-bell. the p is silent", she stared at me and asked how I knew.
"Do you call it camp-bell's soup?"
"Yes."
I left her alone.
Yikes! I do an almost Camp-bell pronunciation. I pronounce the 'P' very softly, so you can't really hear it. I basically slur the the p and the b together. Thank you for correcting the error of my ways!!!
Heheheh.
t says "campbell" to self a few times out loud.
It does sound like the p and b are sorter combined, huh? Well, that's the way to say it. NOT CAMP-bell.
Supposebly. Supposebly? They went to the zoo? Supposebly.
t /joey tribianni
I'm at work and 3 people in the past 30 minutes have just said "cahton" as in carton of cigarettes/milk/etc. Now, I have always pronounced the R. Am I wrong on that as well?
