9/8/22

 Day 8 of my September challenge.

I was listening to a podcast that was talking about regional dialects.
My folks grew up in Missouri and Illinois but we traveled around a lot because my dad was in the Air Force so my dialect is probably a hot mess. 
For example, to me soda is pop, laundry detergent is soap powder and I say warsh not wash. 
But it made me curious to see what you might call things. 
Here are my answers to a regional dialect quiz I took: 














According to the quiz, I am from the South.


Talk to you tomorrow. 

I will persevere.
I will keep moving forward.
I will be the stream. 

Comments

  1. You are the first person other than my father that says 'warsh.'
    I took the quiz, I am from the West, which is basically true, though I was born in Mississippi but moved to California as an infant.

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    1. Interesting. Where was your father raised, Bob?

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    2. I was always under the impression that 'warsh' was a Pennsylvania thing right along with 'yu'uns'. I used to say 'warsh' when I was a child. I never said 'yu'uns' in my life.

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  2. I got midwest which is correct. I too say pop. I said it just yesterday and someone said as if i was an alien, where are you from? It made me laugh. To me soda is pop with ice cream in it! Well that was fun. :-)

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  3. Regionalisms, dialects, accents...I love 'em!
    Roly-polies were also pill bugs, I think. I guess what I mean is that we used both terms for the same wee bug.
    We never had roundabouts here until about 20 years ago. I think the local lingo is 'traffic circle', but I personally use what you use.
    The 'ou' in 'paper route' sounds like 'ow'. But if we're talking roadways a la Rte 66, then it's 'oo'.

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    1. Always been roly pollies to me, Bea.

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  4. We only match on about half the words. How in the world do you pronounce #14 so that they are different? I’ve taken these quizzes before and they are always correct for me (Northern Ohio/Northern Indiana). I find this topic fascinating! My oldest daughter went to college an hour away and everyone thought she had an accent! Lol.

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    1. Maybe I don't on #14 but it sounds different in my head, Bijoux.

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    2. I say cot and cawt, if that's any help.

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  5. I think I took that quiz and it gave me West--no surprise since I've lived my whole life in Washington...or is it Warshington? ;)

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    1. I have in the past had to stop myself to say it properly, Margaret.

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  6. I came up South, too; an Ohioan born and bred. And I don't say warsh.

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    1. It's not too late to start, Joanne.

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  7. Well, I'm from the west. So true. My father was from Kansas City, Mo. He said pop and I remember him running around the house yelling "A warsp, a warsp!"

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  8. Took the quiz. Northeast here, and that's true, if you call Central PA the northeast.

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    1. It will look good on your author's bio page, Dave R.

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  9. I'm from the West which isn't remotely true. But then I wasn't asked whether or not I say 'warsh' which I do so that might have tipped the scales.

    I grew up on a farm about 1/4 mile north of the Missouri line. Our neighbors right across the line always seemed to have a deep southern draw compared to us. I never could understand how an accent could vary that much in 1/4 mile.

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    1. A fellow warsher. Awesome. I had a friend in the Navy that was from Southern Illinois and he sounded like he was Mississippi and it just boggled my mind.

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  10. It gave me a West designation. I guess Missouri might be considered west. I never said warsh but my dad did.

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    1. I think I got it from my mom and her sisters, Mike, and they were all raised in St. Louis.

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  11. I'm from the south of England and we call shoes you wear to work out in trainers! Take out food is take away food. When I first heard an American say route, I had no idea what they were talking about!

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    1. There are many British words I love, Joey. I think my favorite is "I'm knackered."

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  12. I'd like you to interpret Tony's speech. He's Italian, born in Boston, raised on the west coast and has bad grammar. Also calls a couch a Chesterfield.

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    1. I don't think I would be much help, kden. Good luck to you.

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