Re: What American accent do you have? (short quiz)
[QUOTE=bagelred]I couldn't care less about "most of America". I'm telling you the way it's said here in New York. Describe how they are said in your area, and how it's different than what I wrote.[/QUOTE]
k
all are pronounced exactly the same in houston from what I've heard. They all rhyme with carry.
Re: What American accent do you have? (short quiz)
I was playing a game where folks had to portray a specific accent and a person had to guess the accent. To be really stereotypical about it, an example would be saying, "G'day, mate" with an inflection that'd lead the person to guess, "Australian!"
Anyway, a lot of the accents were pretty easy to portray in a recognizable fashion (valley girl, southern, Scottish) but things got a little rough when the game first dictated we use a New Yorker accent. We pulled that off successfully. But then the game eventually came back and begin asking for a Brooklyn accent, then Long Island, and possibly Bronx.
My ignorant question is, how does one differentiate between all of those accents? I tended to throw them all under one general "New Yorker" accent. Even New Jersian was tough for me to differentiate.
Re: What American accent do you have? (short quiz)
[QUOTE=ace23]k
all are pronounced exactly the same in houston from what I've heard. They all rhyme with carry.[/QUOTE]
so Texans say Marry Christmas?
Re: What American accent do you have? (short quiz)
[QUOTE=BrooklynZoo]thats how i pronounce the first two but my Mary rhymes with Larry, just like the Mary Had a Little Lamb renditions I YouTubed lol
[URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_K9hFxSvDM"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_K9hFxSvDM[/URL][/QUOTE]
Interesting. To me, in the video, it sounds like she's saying "Merry". But I say Mary like an adult female horse with a y: Mare-y.
And speaking of horses, this topic is like a dead horse. We beat it to death. I think I'm gonna get a cup of Cough-ee now.
Re: What American accent do you have? (short quiz)
[QUOTE=BrooklynZoo]so Texans say Marry Christmas?[/QUOTE]
All three are pronounced the same way in TX so yeah, here, it's pronounced how you would say "marry".
New Yorkers talk funny.
Re: What American accent do you have? (short quiz)
I say all three of them the same way as well