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Worst American Accent

I like the Boston and Rhode Island accents because it’s fun to make fun of; although I can’t agree more with @superjohn lmao

Deep South accents are just gross, like they take pleasure in butchering human verbal communication
 
superjohn said:
When I was a little kid I thought we had intercepted a mafia conversation on our answering machine. The entire conversation had the thickest accents I've ever heard and all they were talking about was cutting snitches balls off and whacking people. I told my mom there's a conversation with two mob guys talking about killing people on our answering machine. I played it for her and my mom said, "Oh that's just your dad talking to his brother."

My dad always had a strong Jersey City accent but it went to another level when he was with his brother.
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Your family was in the mob?
 
After processing all this stuff, here I go

New England with the Mayan for mine.

The Appalachian of Western Virginia, North Carolina and Eastern Tennessee. WTF is all that?

Mississippi Delta

MinnesSOtah and Wisconsin. Check out Charlie Berens videos and You Betcha. They are spot on.

New Orleans with both the Cajun and Acadian dialects. One city and two distinct dialects which are equally unintelligible.

South Jersey and Philly. Pick your dividing line and where the finger nails screech on the chalk board.

After processing all this, I think the Philly and South Jersey is the worst, Appalachian mountain creetins second and New England pahk the cah is third.
 
storrsroars said:
I've been here 20 years now and rarely ever hear "yinz" in conversation, except used ironically or for comic effect. Most Pittsburghese will likely die off over the next decade or two when all those old Sou'siders pass on. The words and dialect that do still survive are things like "dahntahn", "Stillers", "slippy" instead of slippery, "buggy" for a shopping cart, "gum band" for rubber band, and shortening "the car needs to be washed/needs washing" into "the car needs warshed."


You mean MinneSOta.

I don't find it a terrible accent, but the one thing that always bugged me was pronouncing "bag" as "beg".


My mother was Lithuanian, but had a lot of Italian friends, including my godmother. Not only would mom drop the ending vowel, she'd come up with entirely new consonants at times. Like manicotti becoming "mannagawk", or va fa Napoli becoming "bah fanabla".
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Yeah, no one uses Yinz unless it’s intentional/ironic.

Your only omissions were “aht” for out (“Did you take aht the trash?”) and skipping the word “to” when stating you’re going somewhere (“We’re going dahn the Buccos game” or “We go up camp on the weekends”)
 
For those with a subscription, the Times posted and interesting dialect quiz that could predict where you are from based on answers to 20 questions. In addition to asking how you pronounce certain words, they asked how you might refer to something (is it a traffic circle, rotary, etc)

After you answer each question it gives you a heat map of what part of the country uses that phrase or pronunciation, and then at the end it compiles your answers and tells you where you are from. Interestingly, some terms are pretty general (for instance apparently everyone west of the Mississippi as well as upper New England pronounces cot and caught the same. I don't, so it surprised me.), and others are very localized (if you grew up eating grinders as opposed to subs or hoagies most of you know the small region where that occurs)
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mussels said:
For those with a subscription, the Times posted and interesting dialect quiz that could predict where you are from based on answers to 20 questions. In addition to asking how you pronounce certain words, they asked how you might refer to something (is it a traffic circle, rotary, etc)

After you answer each question it gives you a heat map of what part of the country uses that phrase or pronunciation, and then at the end it compiles your answers and tells you where you are from. Interestingly, some terms are pretty general (for instance apparently everyone west of the Mississippi as well as upper New England pronounces cot and caught the same. I don't, so it surprised me.), and others are very localized (if you grew up eating grinders as opposed to subs or hoagies most of you know the small region where that occurs)
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Glad to see spending the last third of my life in Pittsburgh hasn't changed my speech. While I grew up in Stamford, my dad's side was from Yonkers, and that's my closest match, followed by Newark/Paterson and Baltimore, which I find odd.
 
mussels said:
For those with a subscription, the Times posted and interesting dialect quiz that could predict where you are from based on answers to 20 questions. In addition to asking how you pronounce certain words, they asked how you might refer to something (is it a traffic circle, rotary, etc)

After you answer each question it gives you a heat map of what part of the country uses that phrase or pronunciation, and then at the end it compiles your answers and tells you where you are from. Interestingly, some terms are pretty general (for instance apparently everyone west of the Mississippi as well as upper New England pronounces cot and caught the same. I don't, so it surprised me.), and others are very localized (if you grew up eating grinders as opposed to subs or hoagies most of you know the small region where that occurs)
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Lol. I’ll bet it zooms in on my street!

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Hey Adrien! said:
My wife watches a lot of Discovery+ home renovation shows and two shows on their current location take place in Chicago.

While some of these shows I enjoy to watch, and at worst, tolerate, she’s been binging a show called Finding Gold. The show’s couple have an awful Chicago accent, the nasally tone I’m used to but with an aggressive grating high frequency that I find straight up repulsive. Almost sounds like a perpetual head cold.

Our great nation is filled with a variety of accents: which can’t you stand the most?
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1) Long Island
2) Boston
3) Chicago
 
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Improviser said:
Even in Connecticut, people from Nah Wich, have an accent different from the rest of Connecticut, IMO.
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Pretty much swamp yankee. One of my UConn roomies had that accent from Canterbury CT.
 
uconnfan68 said:
Your family was in the mob?
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No but my uncle was in that world at the time sitting outside the Ravenite club on Mulberry every night. He's always sounded like one of those guys and my dad sounded the same whenever he talked with him.
 
8893 said:
Lol. I’ll bet it zooms in on my street!

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Hate to think that somebody from YonKiz would find my New Haven County accent or way of speaking, similar to theirs!

I always thought of them and Westchester folks as variants of New Yawkers accents.

Sometimes, Southerners have asked me if I came from New York, but I think that was because to them, all Northeastern folks sound like New Yorkers.
 
mussels said:
For those with a subscription, the Times posted and interesting dialect quiz that could predict where you are from based on answers to 20 questions. In addition to asking how you pronounce certain words, they asked how you might refer to something (is it a traffic circle, rotary, etc)

After you answer each question it gives you a heat map of what part of the country uses that phrase or pronunciation, and then at the end it compiles your answers and tells you where you are from. Interestingly, some terms are pretty general (for instance apparently everyone west of the Mississippi as well as upper New England pronounces cot and caught the same. I don't, so it surprised me.), and others are very localized (if you grew up eating grinders as opposed to subs or hoagies most of you know the small region where that occurs)
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I wish I could do this and confuse the hell out of it.
 
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