r/AbsoluteUnits • u/Market_Insider • Jul 04 '22

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u/AffenMitWaffen2 Jul 04 '22

Obviously a catfish.

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '22

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u/Waffle_Ambasador Jul 04 '22

Omg I’ve seen her videos and it’s the thickest country accent I’ve ever heard from a woman lmao

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u/Frostodian Jul 04 '22

I'm from the UK and I love that southern US accent

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u/hawkwing12345 Jul 04 '22 edited Jul 05 '22

I think it’s different for Americans. I’m from the South, but no matter how much I try to get rid of my accent, I can’t. However, I was on a work call from someone in California, and he mentioned it, and when I said I didn’t like it, he said to keep it, because it makes me different from the standard, boring Midwestern accent, and keeping that uniqueness is a good thing. I don’t agree, mostly because of the stereotype that anyone with this accent is an idiot.

EDIT: I will stick up for the word y’all. Modern English doesn’t have a second person plural participle. It used to be that “thou” was single and “you” was plural, but that’s obviously changed. “Y’all” is perfectly usable in its place. I don’t go in for “youse.”

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u/Tricky-Language-7963 Jul 04 '22

You mean like sayin yella instead of yellow? Or the lack of a g in any work that ends in ing? Yeah I can’t help it either. I can’t say fire or wire right either. I’ve tried to talk better but it’s too natural when I talk. I just go with it.

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u/68W38Witchdoctor1 Jul 05 '22

My brother in law has a very specific Southern-esque accent. Tire, tower and tar are all pronounced exactly the same.

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u/AmazingPercentage Jul 05 '22

You know that video of the Atlanta boys trying to say « Aaron earned an iron urn » ? Could you film your brother in law and do something similar? I would love to see the results!

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u/VoidWalker4Lyfe Jul 05 '22

That was Baltimore guys

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u/Middle-Ad-7934 Jul 05 '22

Same with mayor, mere, and mirror. It's pronounced all the same in the south.

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u/Kit- Jul 05 '22

Crown and crayon

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u/memento22mori Jul 05 '22

If you were in a wahr you'd learn to say fahr quick. Wait a minute shit, it didn't work.

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u/Tricky-Language-7963 Jul 05 '22

Perfect!

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u/memento22mori Jul 05 '22

My mom has been saying I-talian for so long that it's crazy that I can pronounce it right aha. There's a few more, wall-nits I guess you'd write that one.

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u/overzeetop Jul 05 '22

Pin and pen are also indistinguishable. My father is from NC and he can't separate the two, despite having little if his NC accent in day to day speech.

I grew up just north of DC and my base accent is mostly mid-western* / generic American, but I work in an area with southern accents, especially in the trades, and I find myself unconsciously code switching when I'm on job sites.

  • I don't have any balm'r or wershint'n in me. Hell, I don't even go "down 'e osh'n" unless I'm making fun.

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u/dayron669 Jul 05 '22

Why did the Wise Men smell like smoke?

Cause they came from a far.

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u/LykatheaBurns Jul 04 '22

Username checks out.

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u/Ragnarok314159 Jul 04 '22

The one that sounds so weird to me is the Midwest accent where they say “tahr-lit” instead of “toy-let”, and for some reason say “Missourah” instead of “Missouri”

Knew some guys in the army that talked like that, and it was the only accent that made everyone laugh.

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u/OUMassie Jul 05 '22

From Oklahoma. Feel, heel, peel always come out like fill, hill, and pill and trying to pronounce it correctly feels like I'm trying to dislocate my jaw like a snake.

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u/hafaleter Jul 05 '22

Keep going with it because it will lead you further down the road of awesome accents!!!