most distinct regional dialect

I love guessing where people are from based on their accent!

Having grown up in the South, I've been known to tell a South Carolina from a Georgia and an Alabama from a Tennessee.

I think South Carolina and Louisiana have more a drawl... they speak more slowly... they've got that low country thing goin' on. In Georgia, they have the accent but talk faster -- think Foxworthy.

Texas and Oklahoma have their own thing, too.

Last week I was at a new doctor, and after he introduced himself I said, "Chicago!" He was a bit humorless and said yes, he's from Chicago. After the examination as he was leaving the room, he said, "Do you have any questions?"

And I said, "Can you say 'Ditka!' for me just once??"

He didn't.

 

No one for wi-SKAAAAAN-sin?

 

Pittsburghese should be right up there. On that same note, in five years there I was not only told I was from the South (Baltimore?) but also that I had an accent. OK ...

Also, different parts of the south - as well as different parts of Texas - all have distinct tones.

 

Right on about the Southern thing. If you've ever heard someone from Calhoun City, Mississippi speak, it's unmistakeably apart from any other Southern accent.

 

I did, a few posts back. A little bit of Milwaukee-ese from my man Alex Thien.

 

It's a tie between Cajun and the outports of Newfoundland.

 

Get a new doctor. Stat.

 

Cousins.

 

"Try to raise a family/Ended up an enemy/Over what went down on the Plains of Abraham."
-- Acadian Driftwood
The Band.

 

Why in the hell would you ever spend a week in Strongsville? I lived there for a year (thank god I was only 5) and my brother was born when we lived there.

Ick.

 

Another vote for Cajun. Lived in Eunice for two years (Geaux Bobcats and Blue Jays!) and I couldn't even understand some people their accent was so thick.