(05-09-2021, 07:47 PM)grampahol Wrote: I and a few of yous odders grew up in a time when accents were more defined and you knew where someone was from by the way they talked.. TV and the fact that we're a much more mobile society has really made most families lose their old accents.. I grew up listening to my old man say quatta, watta and other NY things. Most of my friends had a strong kentucky accent and we knew who was who from how they talked.. It's not so easy anymore.. Back then i wasn't hard to tell if someone grew up around Harlan or Lexington or Southern Ohio or West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Indiana.. It was a different time I guess...

(05-15-2021, 11:10 AM)jfkbengals Wrote: I told two yutes to do it!  Dey shoulda been done by now.

(05-09-2021, 07:47 PM)grampahol Wrote: I and a few of yous odders grew up in a time when accents were more defined and you knew where someone was from by the way they talked.. TV and the fact that we're a much more mobile society has really made most families lose their old accents.. I grew up listening to my old man say quatta, watta and other NY things. Most of my friends had a strong kentucky accent and we knew who was who from how they talked.. It's not so easy anymore.. Back then i wasn't hard to tell if someone grew up around Harlan or Lexington or Southern Ohio or West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Indiana.. It was a different time I guess...

(05-16-2021, 04:43 PM)Wes Mantooth Wrote: A LOT of people around this area used to pronounce the word "wash" like "worsh".

"Did you put the clothes in the worshing machine?"

"I'm going to go worsh my car."

"George Worshington was our 1st president."

Seeing your post reminded of this.  Hadn't thought about for awhile and I'm not even sure it's common anymore.

(05-16-2021, 04:43 PM)Wes Mantooth Wrote: A LOT of people around this area used to pronounce the word "wash" like "worsh".

"Did you put the clothes in the worshing machine?"

"I'm going to go worsh my car."

"George Worshington was our 1st president."

Seeing your post reminded of this.  Hadn't thought about for awhile and I'm not even sure it's common anymore.

(05-17-2021, 09:18 PM)jfkbengals Wrote: My mothers whole family, all D.C. born and raised, all pronounced it that way and drove me crazy!

(05-18-2021, 01:42 AM)Bengalzona Wrote: Sometimes I listen to British people speaking and some of them (probably a dialect) throw these "r's" into words where there are no "r's". It freaks me out when I hear it. I'm like, "WTF did you just say?!?!?"

And when they try and say "aluminum", I completely go off the deep end! They say, "a-lu-min-ium". Arrrrrgggghhh!!!

(05-16-2021, 04:43 PM)Wes Mantooth Wrote: A LOT of people around this area used to pronounce the word "wash" like "worsh".

"Did you put the clothes in the worshing machine?"

"I'm going to go worsh my car."

"George Worshington was our 1st president."

Seeing your post reminded of this.  Hadn't thought about for awhile and I'm not even sure it's common anymore.

(05-16-2021, 04:43 PM)Wes Mantooth Wrote: A LOT of people around this area used to pronounce the word "wash" like "worsh".

"Did you put the clothes in the worshing machine?"

"I'm going to go worsh my car."

"George Worshington was our 1st president."

Seeing your post reminded of this.  Hadn't thought about for awhile and I'm not even sure it's common anymore.

(05-09-2021, 09:08 PM)Bengalzona Wrote: Good points. Dialects and accents used to be more pronounced back when we were kids.

(05-24-2021, 04:18 PM)bengalfan74 Wrote: Sanrich ? - sandwich

(05-24-2021, 01:13 PM)grampahol Wrote: My wife makes fun of my pronunciation of "worsh".. I don't hear it, but apparently she does..

When I was a kid, around 17 I was in Job Corps in Darby, Montana . There were guys from just about every state, NY, Boston, all over the south, Texas, even Montana..Anyway I picked up on the different accents and still speak with different dialects to this day depending on the subject at hand.. The most pronounced to my ear was from Bahhstun.. Boston..they drank tarnic (tonic) instead of soda pop.. 
Quite a hoot watching new kids from Brooklyn seeing snow capped mountains for the first time in their lives..
I remember one kid telling me he never knew mountains were real. He thought they were just made up..lol  One guy thought bears were just stuffed animals.. Quite an eye opener for a lot of guys back then..