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I live in Baltimore.They have published a small dictionary for tourists so they can understand the Baltimorese we Baltimorons speak http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/images/icons/icon7.gif

here is something funny I noticed when I went to N.C.
About a dozen people, when they found out I was from Texas, asked me what Ya'll meant.

I was thinking southern accent as in a southern bell. You know one of those dainty proper types. By thu whyy. Something like that http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/images/icons/icon7.gif

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by dogscoff:
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"IMO, pronouncing "way" as "why" would be more of a British cockney thing than a Southern US thing."
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Spoken like a true american. Us Brits don't all talk like Dick Van Dyke in "Mary Poppins" you know. In fact none of us do. I think some Australians might use that accent though.
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Which is exactly why I added the "Cockney" bit in; I've been to England, and not once heard an accent like Dick Van Dyke in "Mary Poppins" (or, for that matter, like Audrey Hepburn in "My Fair Lady", another supposedly Cockney accent, and the source of my comment). I apologize if I wasn't clear enough. After all, not all Americans talk like John Wayne either. Nor do all Germans talk like Werner Klemperer (famous for playing Col. Klink on Hogan's Heroes).

Oh, BTW, I've been to Australia too, and there's not a Cockney accent there either; to my ears, it was more the "typical" British accent with a bit of a drawl added.

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> Originally posted by Nitram Draw:
You haven't travelled the south enough Go to Louisiana try understanding Cajun and Coon-***. WOW<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

I'd consider Cajun a separate accent from "Southern", since Cajun came from the French influence (among others, of course). As for travels, my experience with the South is based more in the Southwest - Texas, New Mexico, etc.; although my fiancee lived in South Carolina for a while, and her sister lives in Tennessee... but none of them pronounce "A" as "I" (yes, another "My Fair Lady" reference).

Sorry guys but right now that would not be an easy thing to integrate into our new site redesign we are working on.

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Shrapnel Games
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Thanks for looking into it any way!
Read the update on the patch, looking good for a release soon?

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by chewy027:
I was thinking southern accent as in a southern bell. You know one of those dainty proper types. By thu whyy. Something like that http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/images/icons/icon7.gif<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Uhh, dude. Southern Bell is a phone company. Miss Scarlett O'Hara was a Southern Belle. Note the final "e" http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/images/icons/icon7.gif http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/images/icons/icon7.gif http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/images/icons/icon7.gif

BTW, my daddy used to say that it wasn't until he turned 17 and joined the corps that he learned "damn yankee" was two separate words http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/ima...ons/icon12.gif