What about Maine accents? Hunh? Hunh?

[WritingIsMyReligion]

Maineahs don't talk any funneah than any-a the resta ya! Ayuh!

(Though I do use the word "wicked" constantly. :P :P)

[kiraboo]

1. WIMR - notice how nobody chimes in?

Laughing. On the coast the fishermen can be damn near unintelligible.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

2. I KNOW!

They are fucking INSANE. Try and comprehend THEM, oh lovers of accents!

:rofl:

[kiraboo]

3. I'll tell you something - as I get older I have a harder time

trying to understand people with strong accents. I think it's because I have a certain amount of hearing loss (runs in the family) and somehow this prevents me from getting the subtleties of speech. It's okay when my brain knows what to expect in terms of intonation etc. but with an accent it's tough.

But I agree with earlier threads. The Scottish accent is the best.

[Arkham House]

4. My grandfather was from Frankfort, and went to Bowdoin--

--and he had an accent as thick as a good lobster sandwich. My Mom was born in maine, but grew up in CT...and she didn't have one...and naturally, neither do I, much as I've always wanted to tahk lahke a Yankee... No one in CT has a Yankee accent anymore--the "accent" is New York...lots of youses and doses... You actually have a Maine accent, WIMR? I've heard that the Down East accent was disappearing...I'd be delighted to hear that young people are still acquiring them...

[WritingIsMyReligion]

8. No, not really.

I just say "wicked" a lot. I don't know anybody who seriously says "Ayuh!" much anymore. Kind of a pity. :D

;)

[Arkham House]

14. ...finest kind...

my grandfather really used that expression...

[Writer]

5. Lived there for five years as a young child, then lived in Texas for 18...

years, although you would not be able to tell that I ever stepped a foot in the Lone Star State. I speak normal 'Murkin English until I hit words with -ar in it. Then you know I lived in Maine. "Fahmah." "Oh my gahd." "How ah you?"

And boy do I say wicked. A lot.

[LaraMN]

6. I dont' know what the Maine accent sounds like,

so I can't readily form an opinion.

[fudge stripe cookays]

15. Evah...

seen a Pippridge Fahm commehrshel? Pippridge Fahm remimbahs!"

(TR: "Ever seen a Pepperidge Farm commercial? Pepperidge Farm remembers!")

[fudge stripe cookays]

16. Watch

the movie "Delores Claiborne." You'll get a little bit of an idea.

[WCGreen]

7. Well, you can't get there from here.....

[WritingIsMyReligion]

9. No....

It's "Ya cahn't get theah from heah!"

:P :P :P

[AlCzervik]

10. my great grandmother was from Flagstaff Maine, she sounded just like

the Pepperidge Farm guy, Ayuh.

[chaska]

11. TV has ruined accents...

I'm from the South but have very little accent. I've spent a fair amount of time in Maine, and mainly in rural areas even, I can't recall a single person with a heavy or even very noticeable accent.

It's a damn shame really. I've done a lot of travelling and I tell ya, it's getting to where you can't tell one city from the next. People, same thing. America has become too homogenized. And is doing the same to the rest of the world.

[billyskank]

12. Same happening in the south of england

Everybody speaks with a faux cockney accent nowadays, sometimes referred to as "mockney," and more often as "estuary english." Once upon a time cockneys were people said to live within earshot of the Bow bells.

In the north and west midlands you still get regional accents though.

[tjwmason]

17. Not everybody.

There are still sublte differences between here and say Surrey, but the differentiations are definiting waning. :(

[billyskank]

13. I LOVE Maine accents!

Okay, actually I have no idea whatsoever what a Maine accent sounds like... ;)


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