pahunkboy
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Joined: 2/26/2006 From: Central Pennsylvania Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: KatyLied quote:
(why do you ask?) Worked with a guy, from Chicago, many years ago, when I lived in southern Illinois. He pronounced it "tree", I will admit that I found it (and him) quite endearing. Gotcha. :-) As to accents, I dont fit there, or here. I am stuck in the middle. This is inconvenient on phone calls if I want to be annomous. The "AR" is louder/longer here... but my tone does not = NYC or Boston on words like "car", 'start". The menonites live here, and some of their words creaped in. "yepper". "crick" (creak) "winder" (window) "picking up the house" (cleaning) and my favorite, is giving directions. Go down to where the joneses barn use to be, turn right go down a ways, you cant miss it." [it goes with not having adresses. many adresses were known only by the postman and deeds office, but under 911 - now each home must have a logical address. (imagine that) -so now may have 2 addresses...] [ Chicago and other places are set up that one is always so many 100 west, and so many 100 north or south. so one can always find a location by that. ei- 7200 west 111 south, = 111th and Harlem.] LOL
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