Thunderbird Club

[PillO]

I wish, i would love that Bird.

Ahem!

 

[Kriegs]

My father was from Pascoe RI.

Pascoag Pascoag, Rhode Island - Wikipedia

It wasn’t until I was older that I realized that the sharp, pointy fencing material wasn’t called “Bobbed Wire”.

It's bahbed whyuh, not bobbed whyuh. Jeez, yoo wuh wikid fah awf, kehd

@Count Bassie will hear all of that pronounced correctly in his head

 

[PillO]

There's been an incident of accidentally lighting a random hippie on fire around here, too. Funny how well blonde dreads light up. He was kinda surprised. Burning hippie leads to doused hippie. That evening was a lot of fun, in an improvised kind of way. We never did figure out where that guy came from or where he went afterwards.

How could something like that happen?

A few theories...

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[Count Bassie]

Depends which

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It's bahbed whyuh, not bobbed whyuh. Jeez, yoo wuh wikid fah awf, kehd

@Count Bassie will hear all of that pronounced correctly in his head

Depends which neighborhood you're in!

 

[Gaolee]

How could something like that happen?

A few theories...

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Nothing so dramatic. He leaned over a fire while one of us was putting something into the fire that was going to go pop. When it popped, the hippie lit right up. He seemed surprised. He was also surprised when he got doused to put out the fire. He may have been stoned. Nobody checked on that detail before he disappeared back into the night, never to be seen again.

 

[GonePlaid]

Pascoag Pascoag, Rhode Island - Wikipedia


It's bahbed whyuh, not bobbed whyuh. Jeez, yoo wuh wikid fah awf, kehd

@Count Bassie will hear all of that pronounced correctly in his head

For those from the northeast, does the letter "R" exist except as the first letter of a word?

 

[Gaolee]

For those from the northeast, does the letter "R" exist except as the first letter of a word?

Yes, it does. During my time living on the east coast, I came to understand that the "r" sound is only used at the end of words that are spelled without a letter "r" at the end. Like idea(r). If there's a letter "r" at or near the end, it is always silent. If it's toward the front, it is probably silent unless the word starts with that letter. But, never, ever forget the final "r" sound if there's no final "r" in the spelling.

Is this clear (cleah) now?

 

[GonePlaid]

Yes, it does. During my time living on the east coast, I came to understand that the "r" sound is only used at the end of words that are spelled without a letter "r" at the end. Like idea(r). If there's a letter "r" at or near the end, it is always silent. If it's toward the front, it is probably silent unless the word starts with that letter. But, never, ever forget the final "r" sound if there's no final "r" in the spelling.

Is this clear (cleah) now?

An acquaintance from Baltimore pronounces 'wash' as waRsh.

 

[Gaolee]

An acquaintance from Baltimore pronounces 'wash' as waRsh.

Ohio twang: worsh.
Uh went down to the crick to worsh my clouwths 'cuz thur worterpruf.
Said with your nostrils pinched together.

 

[GonePlaid]

Ohio twang: worsh.
Uh went down to the crick to worsh my clouwths 'cuz thur worterpruf.
Said with your nostrils pinched together.

My 'oldies' were from Indiana. I was born in FL so I have a hybrid(that's the nice term)of midwest twang and Southern drawl.

 

[Kriegs]

For those from the northeast, does the letter "R" exist except as the first letter of a word?

Jeez, we ahn't reetahded ya know! A'course it exists, we'uh jus in too much uv a rush to pruhnownce it alla time.

 

[PillO]

Yes, it does. During my time living on the east coast, I came to understand that the "r" sound is only used at the end of words that are spelled without a letter "r" at the end. Like idea(r). If there's a letter "r" at or near the end, it is always silent. If it's toward the front, it is probably silent unless the word starts with that letter. But, never, ever forget the final "r" sound if there's no final "r" in the spelling.

Is this clear (cleah) now?

An acquaintance from Baltimore pronounces 'wash' as waRsh.

Ohio twang: worsh.
Uh went down to the crick to worsh my clouwths 'cuz thur worterpruf.
Said with your nostrils pinched together.

And people from US Eh make fun of the way Canadians speak. What's that aboot? Ya hosers...

 

[GonePlaid]

And people from US Eh make fun of the way Canadians speak. What's that aboot? Ya hosers...

Down thisaway, words of one syllable get extended: road becomes roh-udd, fee-ish=fish, bo-ee=boy, guh-rll=girl, etc. I's become ah's:tahm=time. All explained fully by Jeff Foxworthy.

 

[Gaolee]

I sat next to an amusing Egyptian woman on a flight about a year ago. She thought regional accents were fascinating. So I dosed her up good with a North Carolina Appalachian hill twang, complete with archaic words that nobody else would use. The look on her face when I told her it was English that she was hearing was priceless.

Her curiosity and amusement about America and Americans was wonderful.

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

Yes, it does. During my time living on the east coast, I came to understand that the "r" sound is only used at the end of words that are spelled without a letter "r" at the end. Like idea(r). If there's a letter "r" at or near the end, it is always silent. If it's toward the front, it is probably silent unless the word starts with that letter. But, never, ever forget the final "r" sound if there's no final "r" in the spelling.

Is this clear (cleah) now?

yup, now pass the vodker..

 

[JJR58]

To funny on all the accent's from other states stuff.
I think Ken and I are the only New Yorkers, or Brooklyn-ites that don't have your typical NY accent.
Weeze just sounds likes most regla folks.

 

[Count Bassie]

I sat next to an amusing Egyptian woman on a flight about a year ago. She thought regional accents were fascinating. So I dosed her up good with a North Carolina Appalachian hill twang, complete with archaic words that nobody else would use. The look on her face when I told her it was English that she was hearing was priceless.

Her curiosity and amusement about America and Americans was wonderful.

A Brit friend of mine in Miami loves New England, because it's a fairly small region that is home to so many dialects of English. He says it reminds him of England because there are a lot of similarities to the English neighborhoods' takes on English.
Here in Rhode Island, right, words with "r" become words with "ah". As someone said already, we know there's a letter "r". We also know there are moons around Saturn, but it's too fah to go, so we don't care.

Depending on where you are, you might hear the "r" pronounced like a "v". I've always found that a little hard to take.

Words like "driving" become "drivin".
Words like "kitchen" become "kitching". No idea about the etiology of that one, but there are a ton of sub-dialects, just in Rhode Island. It's one of the more amusing aspects of this amusing state.

 

[GonePlaid]

A Brit friend of mine in Miami loves New England, because it's a fairly small region that is home to so many dialects of English. He says it reminds him of England because there are a lot of similarities to the English neighborhoods' takes on English.
Here in Rhode Island, right, words with "r" become words with "ah". As someone said already, we know there's a letter "r". We also know there are moons around Saturn, but it's too fah to go, so we don't care.

Depending on where you are, you might hear the "r" pronounced like a "v". I've always found that a little hard to take.

Words like "driving" become "drivin".
Words like "kitchen" become "kitching". No idea about the etiology of that one, but there are a ton of sub-dialects, just in Rhode Island. It's one of the more amusing aspects of this amusing state.

One o' my favorites is "jeetjet"=did ya eat yet? Another quirk. In the South, distance is measured in time."how far is it to Walmart?" "oh, 'bout 15 minutes, give 'er take."

 

[Inky13]

For those from the northeast, does the letter "R" exist except as the first letter of a word?

Upstate NY is very flat but uses “R”
It always amused me to go downstate and be told that I “Sound Different”
Western PA: “ Worsh the Winders” and “Yintz Guys”.
Fun Fact: Oregon has the fastest talkers.

 

[Count Bassie]

One o' my favorites is "jeetjet"=did ya eat yet? Another quirk. In the South, distance is measured in time."how far is it to Walmart?" "oh, 'bout 15 minutes, give 'er take."

Jeet?
No? Sco!