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This is for all those who keep asking me to...

"Pahk thah cah in Hahvahd Yahd."

Ayuh...

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Ayuh, Im one of them. When I was a kid I used to pump gas. My town is on of one of the main routes north through Maine. All the flatlanders would stop at the end of the summer headed home and I got great enjoyment from scaring the h3ll outta them about how bad the winters were and that they better be headed south.
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So what the hell is a dooryard? They.all said it dooyad... but nobody ever explained it Iin the two years I lived in LaGrange Me. A driveway was my best guess.
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One Uncle of mine went to Harvard and got married to a woman from Boston while there. She never did learn how to pronounce the letter r even after living in California for almost 40 years and Texas for 25 more.
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You know the sad part. Regional accents are fading. TV and the mobility of our society are likely to blame. But, a nephew that lives in the south now has developed a pretty good southern accent, so all hope is not lost.
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Pete44ru wrote: Thu Oct 05, 2017 5:33 am
fordwannabe wrote: Wed Oct 04, 2017 10:58 pm So what the hell is a dooryard? They.all said it dooyad... but nobody ever explained it Iin the two years I lived in LaGrange Me. A driveway was my best guess.

A dooryard is that part of a residential property that lies immediately outside a home's entry door, beit a front or a side door.

The portion immediately outside a rear entry door is "out back". ;)

You folks DO know what "flatlanders" really mean, right ? :o


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Pete44ru wrote: Thu Oct 05, 2017 5:34 am
Pete44ru wrote: Thu Oct 05, 2017 5:33 am
fordwannabe wrote: Wed Oct 04, 2017 10:58 pm So what the hell is a dooryard? They.all said it dooyad... but nobody ever explained it Iin the two years I lived in LaGrange Me. A driveway was my best guess.

A dooryard is that part of a residential property that lies immediately outside a home's entry door, beit a front or a side door.

The portion immediately outside a rear entry door is "out back". ;)

You folks DO know what "flatlanders" really mean, right ? :o


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Well....kinda. It encompasses a bigger area than that. Think of it like you have no driveway and parking is a free for all, which in many instances, is the case. If your entry door faces the road, its the area between the house and the road.....unless your house is way off the road. Then, its the cleared area to the woods within 50 yards or so. Its hard to quantify in exact measurements.
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I'm guessing " Flatlanders" equates with our "citiots" which generally equates with a lower body part... :mrgreen:
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gcs wrote: Thu Oct 05, 2017 7:31 am I'm guessing " Flatlanders" equates with our "citiots" which generally equates with a lower body part... :mrgreen:
A REAR body part orifice......... :roll:

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Tried to speak with a sweet older lady on the phone who was from the midwest , I tried hard to slow my speech pattern down, but she could only catch a few words and I had to constantly repeat myself.
So, the question is.... Do midwesterners think as slow as they talk? :mrgreen:
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If you think a Bahstun accent is difficult to understand, you should hear a Texas accent trying to pronounce the name of a medicine. Kay-Flakes is spelled Keflex. Sull-fer is spelled sulfa. Clozapeen is spelled clonazepam. Zombie-calm is spelled zolpidem. Atnawll is spelled atenolol. PruhVassTen is spelled pravastatin. Hypercordrone and Hypercortisone are spelled hydrocodone.

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Ever hear a Texan try to pronounce an Italian name? Oh, that's right, there's no Eye Talons in Texas... :mrgreen:
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Just got back to SC from a week in Maine. I always at on the southern accent thick up there, just for fun. On the way back we spent a night in PA. At breakfast the next morning, a waitress said, "I take it from your accents that you folks aren't from around here." I replied, "I take it from your accent that you are," and she actually got ticked off at me! Hey, lady, turnabout is fair play! :lol:
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Knew a guy in the Navy from Boston named Bobby. He said that when most of us said his name, it sounded to him like "Barbie" sounded to us. :P

BTW, fellers, I'm originally from Texas and I don't have no trouble talkin good... :oops:
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Pisgah wrote: Fri Oct 06, 2017 11:55 am Just got back to SC from a week in Maine. I always at on the southern accent thick up there, just for fun. On the way back we spent a night in PA. At breakfast the next morning, a waitress said, "I take it from your accents that you folks aren't from around here." I replied, "I take it from your accent that you are," and she actually got ticked off at me! Hey, lady, turnabout is fair play! :lol:

Sorry I missed you. Should have gave a holler. We could have got a coffee and hit the range!
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OldWin wrote: Fri Oct 06, 2017 4:11 pm
Pisgah wrote: Fri Oct 06, 2017 11:55 am Just got back to SC from a week in Maine. I always at on the southern accent thick up there, just for fun. On the way back we spent a night in PA. At breakfast the next morning, a waitress said, "I take it from your accents that you folks aren't from around here." I replied, "I take it from your accent that you are," and she actually got ticked off at me! Hey, lady, turnabout is fair play! :lol:

Sorry I missed you. Should have gave a holler. We could have got a coffee and hit the range!
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Yeah, that's quite a ways from me. :D
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Pisgah wrote: Sun Oct 08, 2017 2:50 pm
OldWin wrote: Fri Oct 06, 2017 4:11 pm
Pisgah wrote: Fri Oct 06, 2017 11:55 am Just got back to SC from a week in Maine. I always at on the southern accent thick up there, just for fun. On the way back we spent a night in PA. At breakfast the next morning, a waitress said, "I take it from your accents that you folks aren't from around here." I replied, "I take it from your accent that you are," and she actually got ticked off at me! Hey, lady, turnabout is fair play! :lol:

Sorry I missed you. Should have gave a holler. We could have got a coffee and hit the range!
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New Harbor . . .

New Harbor ? ? ?


Oh wait... You mean: New Hahbah

That's where you were! :wink:

Geez, all these "summahkateahs" can't even pronounce our towns right, ayuh...

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Frankly, you all talk funny.
Boston accent is the closest to normal English to my ears, since - to everybody else - Americans overpronounce their "Rs'. My mother went to the East once, and they often assumed she was from Boston, she having a neutral Australian accent.

It has struck me a couple of times how much of the old Irish accent there is in the American; which is probably where those heavy Rrr's comes from. It can be easy to mistake some Irish speakers for American and vice versa sometimes on the phone.
Just goes to show how many Irish immigrants there were.
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We do not overpronounce our Rs. Everyone else underpronounces them. :P
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piller wrote: Thu Oct 05, 2017 6:52 pm"Zombie-calm is spelled zolpidem"
. . . now THAT is funny . . . !!!

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Being unable to pronounce the letter "r", and having it come out as a sound more like an "h" is probably just a side effect of all those years of mad cow disease affecting those whose ancestors spoke that way. Natural selection of the ones who could survive it and procreate led to that particular defect. Just as the Southern American accent of sounding as if you have a "chaw of tarbaccy" in your mouth or a dip of Copenhagen snuff in your mouth at all times. Just "nacheral" selection. :lol: :lol: :lol:

Despite my silly comments above, many accents are regional and do stem from eating and/or dental habits based on available food sources. Regional accents will never cease to amuse me. My Aunt who was born in Dodge City, KS, raised in Liberal, KS and Delta, CO says "warsh" instead of "wash". I have heard "retch" instead of "reach". When someone is going to "retch" into the cabinet, it is easy to misinterpret their meaning.
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