Another accent/dialect thread (with test)

[CyCrazy]

Des Moines, Omaha , and Denver

 

[mywayorcyway]

Was just gonna post this. The other one I notice is roof. I say roof, like rooooof. Lots of people here say something like ruff. EDIT: or like the chess piece, rook.

A friend of mine cannot say the word "wolf". It only comes out "woof". Has no discernable speech issues otherwise and is a pretty well-read guy. He's aware of it and he cannot fix it.

 

[Busch__Latte]

Wow, I got Lincoln, Nebraska, Amarillo and Lubbock, Texas.

I've never been to Texas before in my life.

 

[cyclonespiker33]

Madison, Rockford, Aurora

Grew up in Cedar Rapids. Adult life in mostly Des Moines.

 

[20eyes]

I've never heard this; it is such an illogical pronunciation!

I've always been fascinated with the common pronunciation of "February" as "Feb-u-ary."

I don't know if it's an OCD thing but I have to pronounce it as it's spelled, Feb-ru-ary.

 

[KnappShack]

Modesto - Stockton California

Never been to either place

 

[BMWallace]

Rockford, Grand Rapids, Toledo.

Born and raised in CR, but have lived in Buffalo for the last 5 years, so that makes sense.

 

[Angie]

I don't know if it's an OCD thing but I have to pronounce it as it's spelled, Feb-ru-ary.

I do the same. Same with "Wed-nes-day," even if it's quicker, more like "Wednsday."

 

[cyclones500]

"The devil is beating his wife"

wtf?

I've heard of that expression, but it probably was from a similar dialect quiz I too a few years ago. (It actually might have been the exact quiz, many of the Q's similar)

(I chose "I have no term for this.")

 

[CloneGuy8]

Des Moines, Lincoln, and Wichita. Pretty spot on

 

[SCyclone]

I've never heard this; it is such an illogical pronunciation!

I've always been fascinated with the common pronunciation of "February" as "Feb-u-ary."

That's just laziness, like saying "Imunna" instead of "I'm going to", or "Jeetyet?" "No,Joo?"

 

[SCyclone]

Was just gonna post this. The other one I notice is roof. I say roof, like rooooof. Lots of people here say something like ruff. EDIT: or like the chess piece, rook.

The correct pronunciation of "roof" rhymes with "hoof".

 

[SCyclone]

The vixen calls her fold-up computer a "labtop". I laugh every time and get slugged.

 

[SpokaneCY]

DSM, Lincoln and Omaha... Grew up in WDM so i call it a match...

 

[GTO]

Probably because you say "warsh"

That's "harsh"...

 

[cyclones500]

My map -- about what I expected.

 

[GTO]

I'm not even born in the US and English is not my first language, but it pegged me as Omaha, Lincoln, Wichita. I guess I learned most of my English colloquialisms in Ames/DesMoines, so maybe that's why.

 

[Cyvilian]

Omaha, Lincoln and Wichita. Grew up in SE Iowa. Guess I have been assimilated.

But I'll never join the Cornhusker cult!

 

[srjclone]

Aurora, CO, - Colorado Springs - and Overland Park

Not crazy, but surprised the Colorado ones were above Chicago. Grew up in Chicago live in Minneapolis.

 

[ISUEmbassy]

Denver, Aurora, Co Springs. Grew up in Central Iowa, lived 6 yrs in Denver and 10 in Ft Worth as an adult.