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> I did kill my accent in grade school when kids made fun of me for saying words different. Ha ha amazingly I can detect a southern accent even in your writing
by juejuli 11y ago
> I did kill my accent in grade school when kids made fun of me for saying words different.
Ha ha amazingly I can detect a southern accent even in your writing! ('different' when someone not from the south would say 'differently')
Language is amazing isn't it.
- brandonmenc 11y agoI'm from Northwest Pennsylvania, and everyone there would also say "different." I know, because in high school I became friends with a highly educated family who moved into town after having lived all over the world, and made an effort to match their more intelligent sounding speech (which included, among other things, adding -ly to adverbs.) My mom still occasionally teases me that I say "eye-ther" instead of "eee-ther" (for "either.")
- jpindar 11y agoPennsyltucky is almost south. :)
- jdminhbg 11y agoOnly if you have trouble distinguishing Appalachia from the South.
- brandonmenc 11y agoWell... I'm from Erie, which is more like Cleveland or Buffalo than central PA.