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efb

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Politicians who keep taxing us and absolutely waste and throw away our hard earned money :mad: :mad: Liberal or Conservative they all seem to be the same when they get into D.C. ( talk about a place that ought to be buried in concrete). It's a disgrace to what this great Nation once stood for.
 

nr

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IL Rancher said:
Oh... In general I think so NR.. People make fun of the way I say Button or bitter or butter (I pronounce them in a way you here both ts for some reason) and sausage (the one word I say with a urban chicago accent) and it was always good natured (just like the but in general these folks were just a bit more arrogant than that. Wish I could explain it and in general it just didn't limit itself to pronunciation... It just really rubbed me the wrong way.. I believe they were folks who truely believed that the middle of the country was only good for "fly over" basically.

And yes, I tend to be a bit on the polite side but good natured things are still fun. Worked with a gal from Maine and she kept talking about shak or something.. Asking me if we had any.. I had no idea what she was saying..Finally I figured it out and said you mean Shark? And she said that is what she said.. I found it very interesting as in her head I think she heard the r but I know I sure didn't.. Ol Priscilla was a tough nut to figure out when she got talking.. That accent.. Yowzas.. She was even tougher than the Korean Cajun I met when I was 16..
I have relatives from Illinois but never heard of pronouncing both t's in butter and bitter. Do you mean you say them with three syllables? Like
But-tuh-ter?
 

Hanta Yo

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IL Rancher said:
Oh... In general I think so NR.. People make fun of the way I say Button or bitter or butter (I pronounce them in a way you here both ts for some reason) and sausage (the one word I say with a urban chicago accent) and it was always good natured (just like the but in general these folks were just a bit more arrogant than that. Wish I could explain it and in general it just didn't limit itself to pronunciation... It just really rubbed me the wrong way.. I believe they were folks who truely believed that the middle of the country was only good for "fly over" basically.

And yes, I tend to be a bit on the polite side but good natured things are still fun. Worked with a gal from Maine and she kept talking about shak or something.. Asking me if we had any.. I had no idea what she was saying..Finally I figured it out and said you mean Shark? And she said that is what she said.. I found it very interesting as in her head I think she heard the r but I know I sure didn't.. Ol Priscilla was a tough nut to figure out when she got talking.. That accent.. Yowzas.. She was even tougher than the Korean Cajun I met when I was 16..


IL rancher,

I can empathize with you, coming from Illinois to Colorado. People pronunciate vowels differently. You lived in MT for awhile, so you know what I'm talking about. It bothers me when people pronunciate Illinois with the sssssssssssssssssssss at the end. It used to bother me (coming from IL, that is) that How Now Brown Cow was pronunciated in CO as hao nao braon cao. In Illinois, my name would be pronounced kayathy, with a somewhat nasal sound in it.

Do you agree?
 

IL Rancher

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NR- The tt thing is me, it is not Illinois. I can't explain it except to say that when I was young I slurred a lot of letters and my teachers and folks got on me and made me do a bunch of stuff so I would pronounce things more clearly. I tended to think, read, write and speak to quickly and would get tangled up.. I think this tt is a result of the exercises to slow me down. My mother, father and brother do not talk this way, it is just me, lol.. Button is the most obvious one for me. Ialmost say it as if I was saying two words.. But half a second ton


Hmm, depending on where in Illinois you are Hanta (Guessing your name is Kathy) but south Chicago the Ka would be drawn out.. I think you were from northern Illinois (Trying to remember right but I think you had family near Hampshire or something like that?).. I wouldn't pronounce it that way but my cousin Kathy who is from down near Joliet would have her brothers and sisters cal her that. Yeah, there is a bit of a nasal sound to it sometimes... Kind of like my name, Anthony. You get far enough into Chicago (Melrose Park area)and the h disappears as the Italian population increases and it becomes Ant-nee bacially.. ant-o-nee.


Of course you end up down in little eqypt area of Illinois and the southern twang starts picking up, not like deep south but it is there. Even over here there is a bit of a drawl that is noticable by outsiders.. I don't hear it so much anymore but when I moved here I sure noticed it and my folks and brother really notice it when tehy come out and someone stops by.

I didin't notice a HUGE difference in Montana from what I was coming from except a few things, Coyote and creek but I had already heard those before so it wasn't culture shock. I guess my "Chicago accent" came through to folks out there but to me the only real difference in talk between Montana and Northeastern Illinois was the pace of talk.. Everything was a bit slower in Montana but I was coming off working at the board of trade so I was used to screaming at a mile a minute so I found it a nice change of pace, lol.
 

nr

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My mom was Pennsylvania Dutch and had learned a strange way to say hotdog. She'd say "hot" with a normal tone, followed by both accentuating and raising her tone in an upswing like she was asking a question on "dog".



hot-DOGS' ??

"Today I bought hotDOGS?"
We always kidded her about that wierdism.
 

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