22 Maps That Show How Americans Speak Differently
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Re: 22 Maps That Show How Americans Speak Differently
by The Dharma Bum » Thu Jun 06, 2013 9:45 am
There's a suburb of Austin called Dripping Springs, but everyone just calls it "drippin'"
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Re: 22 Maps That Show How Americans Speak Differently
by The Dharma Bum » Thu Jun 06, 2013 9:50 am
The native Austin accent sounds kind of a combination of Jeff Spicolli and Boomhauer.
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Re: 22 Maps That Show How Americans Speak Differently
by John Galt » Thu Jun 06, 2013 11:43 am
Americans learn only from catastrophe and not from experience. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Re: 22 Maps That Show How Americans Speak Differently
by John Galt » Thu Jun 06, 2013 12:20 pm
i've lived in 8 different states so i may not that that way, but i don't think i hear it without the th sound at the end. it could be up nourth, but there is def an h. possibly when used as an adjective and not a noun it could be "nourt shore" or "teh nourt stars" but as a noun it gets the h.
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Re: 22 Maps That Show How Americans Speak Differently
by lnrw » Thu Jun 06, 2013 1:39 pm
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Re: 22 Maps That Show How Americans Speak Differently
by micfranklin » Wed Jun 12, 2013 9:01 am
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I say it as "Mayn-aise" but I tried saying it with 3 syllables.
[quote]I say it as "Mayn-aise" but I tried saying it with 3 syllables.
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