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[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Man, in my neck of the woods, you can tell which town someone is from by accent. I'm not even joking or exaggerating. This is a rural area, with towns that are close in terms of driving distance, but that were originally formed by distinct immigrant groups. Even with TV amd radio kinda smoothing out accents in general, there's still plenty of difference.

As an example, there's a town maybe twenty minutes away where when they say yes and it's "yay-us". My town it's more yeah-s as a single syllable. Two towns the other direction, it's yeah-us. And that kind of difference is across everything, not just one or two words. The degree of drawl, whether or not you get elisions at specific places in words, it's all part of it.

[–] moonsnotreal@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

People from the dimwit town I grew up in pronounce garage as "gararge" it drove me insane. Also, the main attraction of the town is a gas station that sells ice cream.

[–] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] moonsnotreal@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 years ago

Eh. Its ok. They had decent sundaes the last time I went like 6 years ago.