Inland North

Post #273,458 by Another Scott 11/16/06 10:36:18 PM Reply	Inland North I agree that there aren't enough questions to properly make distinctions. I spent most of my time before I was 18 in the Atlanta suburbs in Georgia, and Ohio. I fought the southern accent, so I tend to sound strange to most people. "Where are you from?" "I moved around a lot..." And everyone should know that a generic carbonated beverage is properly called a "Coke". ;-) Cheers, Scott.
Post #273,460 by imqwerky 11/16/06 11:08:16 PM Reply	Amen, Brutha! And everyone should know that a generic carbonated beverage is properly called a "Coke". One of the hardest things to deal with when I moved from Kentucky to Northeast Pennsylvania was that they called coke "soda". I would laugh because a soda is one of those things you drink with a straw from a tall glass full of seltzer water, flavoring and a cherry on top. The yankees also didn't know what a sack was. We were at the grocery store and asked for a sack. "A What? Oh! You mean a bag!" Ah, the memories! :-) Smile, Amy
Post #273,465 by static 11/17/06 12:39:17 AM Reply	On a world-wide version, it would have trouble with me. Even though I've lived all my life in Sydney's southern suburbs, I've had many people over the years wonder where my accent is from. But I'm Australian! What I think has happened is that the same things that originally engendered the early versions of the English 'Received Pronunciation' at the likes of Oxford happened to me: namely, the influence of reading a lot. As a child, I was a voracious reader. When I moved out of home a few years ago, even my mother did not fail to be surprised at just how many books I own. And I've read almost all of them. This was borne out a few years ago when I heard a black American preacher who had spent a lot of time in university. His accent was very unusual: to a lot of people it sounded a little British, but not quite, yet we knew he was from the US and could here a lot of New York in there, too. It took a friend of mine who is even more accent-aware than I am to point out that it's because he has so much education. It was an educated accent. Wade. "Don't give up!"

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