What is it about accents?

My dad, from major metropolitan Olive Hill, KY, says "warsh" and "tree" for the number between two and four. He also says "yellow" when he answers the phone.

 

I say rut beer. It's not quite "rut", but its closer to "rut" than "root".

Can't explain that one other than picking it up from my deceased mom, who also said crick for creek. I used to too, but dropped it a long, long time ago.

Of course, my dialectical calling card is my handle, only Milwaukee-area natives and some New Englanders use that one.

 

Mom also uses the phrase that something's "leaning towards Fisher's" when something's crooked. She says that one's from back home, too. No Fishers lived anywhere around, so she has no idea the origins of that one. Weird hill people. ;D

IJAG, I wish my dad would answer that way. Lately, he's taken up answering in a horrible Hop Sing-esque Asian accent. [/slapping forehead]

But, back on topic... I wonder if in England (for instance) an American accent will get you some play. If so, I'm packing in the morning.

 

Oh yes, it's true.

 

Was he the governor at some point? Mike Lowry put the goober in gubernatorial. He called his own state warshington.

 

They all think we sound like cowboys. I suppose if the chick is into cowboys, maybe.

And not all Brit accents are gold. Scottish accents aren't sexy, nor is a true Cockney accent either.

Now an Irish accent? Indefatigable.

 

Oh, Scottish accents are a fine, fine thing in my world.

 

my ancestors are scottish and welsh, just so you know sc.

 

You are engaged though. . . too bad

 

I can see that in men, but I can't think of a single Scottish woman that sounds sexy in her regular voice. Lulu? Sheena Easton? Deborah Kerr?

 

Oh, I disagree on Scottish accents, Bubbs. Shirley Manson was on Craig Ferguson's show the other night, and I taped it just so I could replay it and listen to her again. And again.

 

My mother, father, grandparents and uncles all possess(ed) a Southern accent.

I don't. Maybe that's my problem, along with countless others ...