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Worst American Accent

I’m voting Staten Island or Queens. Just dirty sounding. Had to deal with it every weekend when visiting my Pops growing up. I thought after a while I’d get used to it, but never did.
 
DFW HOYA said:
Last spoken by the likes of Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley. Lampooned by Jim Backus on Gilligan's Island.
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That brings back hilarious memories. Thurston B Howell lll and his wife Eunice "Lovey" Wentworth Howell. Some of the shows from that era like Gilligan's Island and The Beverly Hillbillies had that lampooning of would be upper crusters. On the Hillbillies (Milton Drysdale the phoney/greedy bank executive and Miss Jane Hathaway the spinster secretary with the hots for Jethro). Rocky and Bullwinkle show etc. An interesting and creative mix of entertainment that could appeal to any age group.
 
So, what I have learned is certain chicks, no matter how hot they are, can absolutely become cringe worthy just by speaking.

I also learned that a Baltimore accent is a thing.

Swamp People. Only show filmed in America using American people speaking which required subtitles.
 
Brooklyn. Speaks for itself. Adding non existent "r's" and dropping ones that do exist. Same problem with Boston (Cuba = Cuber) (corner = cawnah).
 
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Chin Diesel said:
So, what I have learned is certain chicks, no matter how hot they are, can absolutely become cringe worthy just by speaking.

I also learned that a Baltimore accent is a thing.

Swamp People. Only show filmed in America using American people speaking which required subtitles.
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Reminds me of this bit from Band of Brothers. Malarkey talking to the English guy. There's a certain English accent that needs subtitles.

 
I remember reading a study of accents across the United States years ago by some linguistic professor. It pretty much said every state has an accent or dialect it uses and that Connecticut (even though there were some accent/dialect variation across the state) spoke the most proper English without an accent as a whole.

Having been to about 35 of 50 states I would have to agree with those findings. Think the worst accent I’ve come across is the Tallahassee/pan handle area of Florida. Knew someone from that area and it would take like 3-4 times for them to say something for me to understand what was being said. After a while I got accustomed to it and could understand it better but if when I didn’t talk/see them for a few months there was a learning curve to understand it again without it being repeated 3 times
 
temery said:
The Old Money, Ivy League Accent.
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Word to George Plimpton.

My father is from Long Island and I attended college in Boston. For a while there in my 20s I morphed into some subtle yet hellish combination of those. Thankfully I've gotten back to normal.

My wife is from California and I've been told a few times by folks out West that I have a Connecticut accent. I wasn't aware that was a thing.
 
Kenny11 said:
Baltimore for sure
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I’m from Baltimore, whenever I’m out of state and I tell people that they ask me to say words like “do” “two” and “hulu”
 
I don't know my New York accents, Brooklyn, LI, whatever, but I don't like any of them. Whatever Fran's was on the Nanny (she was still hot), or "Linda Richman"...not a fan. Pittsburgh's accent isn't great either. I suspect most of them are dying out. Very few folks in Boston still have the accent now. Most southerners I meet don't have much of one either.

 
Kenny11 said:
Baltimore for sure
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Reminds me of this - (there is some foul language in the link, fyi).

- YouTube

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
youtube.com youtube.com
 
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Jorgensen said:
Reminds me of this - (there is some foul language in the link, fyi).

- YouTube

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
youtube.com youtube.com
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This video gets me every time. When he becomes self-aware it’s like he’s broken the simulation
 
Central Pennsylvania- I’ve never heard anywhere else pronounce the word “pull” like “pool.”

Pennsylvanian: “You want a pooled pork sandwich?”
Me: “Is it served with a side of chlorine?”
 
Down here in Florida there is a mix of everything. Being a transplant from "The Insurance Capital of the World", the one thing that really irks me is when people want financial protection for their homes and cars, they buy "IN-surance." Ouch!
 
HuskyHawk said:
I don't know my New York accents, Brooklyn, LI, whatever, but I don't like any of them. Whatever Fran's was on the Nanny (she was still hot), or "Linda Richman"...not a fan. Pittsburgh's accent isn't great either. I suspect most of them are dying out. Very few folks in Boston still have the accent now. Most southerners I meet don't have much of one either.

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Pittsburgh with the dialect for "yinz" and a few others is neat to me. You think a person is talking normal and they throw 12-6 curveball buckling your knees with some of their words.
 
Chin Diesel said:
Pittsburgh with the dialect for "yinz" and a few others is neat to me. You think a person is talking normal and they throw 12-6 curveball buckling your knees with some of their words.
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I don't really remember it to be honest. Should have said I dislike it. Growing up we had family friends who moved to CT from Pitt, and they all sounded weird. Maybe especially so since we had moved there from KC. It was unique for sure.
 
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AZHuskiePop said:
i noticed those similarities even in a towns like Monroe CT ( (pronounced Menroe by the old timers ) among the rural areas
throughout the country I dubbed it 4H speak.
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I lived in Monroe from October 67 to October 21. Heard lots of Muhnro & Mohnro with a Minro here and there, but can't recall anyone saying Menroe. And I was surrounded by old timers. My next door neighbor (born in 1917) had lived there all his life, as had his parents before him.
Maybe that accent belonged to the high falutin' rich folks over in Stepney on the west fide of town, and never reached the poor side of town in Stevenson. That reminds me. A lot of my neighbors did make Stepney into a 3 syllable word -- Step-uh-knee.
 
RichZ said:
I lived in Monroe from October 67 to October 21. Heard lots of Muhnro & Mohnro with a Minro here and there, but can't recall anyone saying Menroe. And I was surrounded by old timers. My next door neighbor (born in 1917) had lived there all his life, as had his parents before him.
Maybe that accent belonged to the high falutin' rich folks over in Stepney on the west fide of town, and never reached the poor side of town in Stevenson. That reminds me. A lot of my neighbors did make Stepney into a 3 syllable word -- Step-uh-knee.
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I live in Stepney and the old folks from the Save Our Stepney task force love to ‘syllabalize’ the word.
 
methodology said:
I remember reading a study of accents across the United States years ago by some linguistic professor. It pretty much said every state has an accent or dialect it uses and that Connecticut (even though there were some accent/dialect variation across the state) spoke the most proper English without an accent as a whole.

Having been to about 35 of 50 states I would have to agree with those findings. Think the worst accent I’ve come across is the Tallahassee/pan handle area of Florida. Knew someone from that area and it would take like 3-4 times for them to say something for me to understand what was being said. After a while I got accustomed to it and could understand it better but if when I didn’t talk/see them for a few months there was a learning curve to understand it again without it being repeated 3 times
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When I was in the service the guys from Cleveland and Milwaukee sounded just like CT. I think the Cleveland area was once a frontier settlement for people from Hartford.
 
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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.
 
dennismenace said:
When I was in the service the guys from Cleveland and Milwaukee sounded just like CT. I think the Cleveland area was once a frontier settlement for people from Hartford.
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This connection is well documented.

www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com

When Cleveland Belonged to Connecticut - New England Historical Society

If you're familiar with Northeastern Ohio, you can see signs of Connecticut in the architecture, the names of towns and in the Public Square of Cleveland.
www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com
 
cohenzone said:
Philadelphia. Totally unpleasant. Worse than Jersey.
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Yup, this.
The enchilada is Camden/Cherry Hill NJ which is the worst of Philly and the worst of jersey combined. Boston girls accents are sexy by comparison.

A NJ/Metro philly girl is the only person on earth who can make the word YO! into 3-4 syllables.
 
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