Posted on 05/15/2019 3:49:23 AM PDT by C19fan
From a southern drawl to a Boston twang, there is no shortage of accents in the United States of America. But no accent is alike - and neither is their sex appeal. Now a new survey has ranked the sexiest and least sexiest accents in America, revealing whether the country prefers the sounds of Mark Wahlberg or the Jersey Shore cast. While Texas and Boston reigned supreme, the likes of Snooki and The Situation would be sad to learn that New Jersey accents ranked almost dead last in the survey by Big 7 Travel.
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If ya'd paid attention in histury class, y'd'a picked up on the fact that almost all eah(r)ly settlahs weh(r) tuff, fahmah types n' spoke ENGLISH !
In the same mannah we no longah use thee and thou, Hahvid Yahd, bahth and ahnt (uncles wife) also fell out of disuse .... Except we TRUE patriots that keep the originalist practice going.
y'welcum.
It IS an accent, as such. But, as you state, there are slang terms that are peculiar to around here.
Tonic, for example.
The correct answer is South Carolina or Georgia.
I love Tennessee accents (similar to West Virginian). It’s kind of slurry and country and very distinctive. Very different from the Alabama accents I hear all around me.
Boston? Seriously, Boston accents rank right down there with New York and New Jersey. Midwest (Chicago/Wisconsin) is pretty annoying as well. I dig Sarah Palin but I can’t listen to her for long stretches.
Live on Long Island, Suffolk county... The further east you go the less that horrible nasal accent exists....
I hate being Nassau county, especially western Nassau... The accent is awful... Just listen to the Long Island medium show.. it’s disturbing.
It is a slang. I realized this while attending church up there.
During Congregational Readings, EVERYONE spoke perfect English.
Rural NC accents are just awful. TN accents are def more pleasant.
Texas accents are not annoying too. They
‘Pill’ oranges ( not peel) and they their medication is in ‘peel’ form (not pill).
I remember visiting Nashville in the mid 1990s and speaking with a woman who was working at the front desk of the hotel I stayed at and she said she was from Mississippi originally but had been in Tennessee for the last three or four years. Her Mississippi family and friends would joke about her “sounding Yankee” by that time.
I don’t know about New England, but I work for a firm that has offices in Texas and New Jersey. I note that in both places, people under 40 lack a distinctive regional accent. The older ones do, however. In 50 years, Southern and New York accents will be as dead as Latin or Sanskrit.
Incrementalism.
Bawstin has sumthin like 300 institutions of highah education in a 10 mile radius and every August, all the kids on the planet arrive to go to school, get drunk, laid and develop a love f'the place.
YOU all sent yuh(r) dawtahs heh(r) to be educated and we made babies with 'em.
Theh(r) ah many reasons for the decline of the Bawstin accent, mosltly though it's wat'id down because of inter marryin'
Southie UST'A be the last haven f'the accent, but I've bin gone since the '70s.
What was the peh(r)fict English you made a "die hahd southie" say ?
‘N’AT !
That should have said Texas ‘Is’ annoying.
I’ve yet to hear a pleasant east or northeast accent. To my California-raised ears, they are like listening to nails across chalkboard, they mangle the language so much.
I remember having a Bostonian in an English class once, who was one of those people who had an opinion on everything and was quick to share it. Every time she opened her mouth, I was stunned at the new and inventive ways she found to butcher even the simplest and most innocent of words. She verged on incomprehensibility.
Originally Roslindale, transpalnted in late 60's early 70's Pahk Street Station area hippiedom.
Tonic is the holdovah from the old CokaCola days when it was a coca syrup that really WAS a tonic.
Boston Brahman - a/k/a - John Kerry. So ugly hitting the ear. I don’t mind the affected Mid-Atlantic accent (Wm. Buckley, actress Holland Taylor), because I love the history of the Main Line.
Did they replace that minuteman statue’s musket with a frisbee yet, patriots???
Minneapolis belongs to the muzzies .... infiltration causes defects in truth and culture.
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