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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.
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.
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Originally posted by Nitram Draw:
You haven't travelled the south enough Go to Louisiana try understanding Cajun and Coon-***. WOW
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).
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